US’s Secret Space Mission “USSF-51” Begins

On Jul 30, 2024 0

epa11508556 The United States Space Force-51 mission lifts off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, 30 July 2024. According to the Space Systems Command, the USSF-51 is a classified National Security Space Launch (NSSL) mission. During its lifetime since 1957, the Atlas family has launched almost every category of space vehicle including military, government, and commercial weather, communications, and science satellites, experimental satellites, robotic probes for exploration, planetary orbiters and rovers, lunar explorers, space planes, two capsules carrying cargo and one with astronauts for the International Space Station (ISS), and one telescope. EPA-EFE/CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH

The Atlas V rocket, which will carry the US’s secret military payload into space within the scope of the “USSF-51” mission, was successfully launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the US state of Florida at 13:45 local time.

It is known that ULA, which was established in 2006 as a partnership between Lockheed Martin and Boeing and whose main customers are NASA and the US Department of Defense, has previously sent communication satellites and other space vehicles belonging to the US military into orbit.

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