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Launch Date
7/1/2022
Launch Site
CC SLC41
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Launch Vehicle
Atlas V 541 G (Atlas 5 Family)
Northrop Grumman supplied an ESPAStar satellite and a Wide Field of View testbed missile detection satellite as part of the USSF-12 mission.
Millennium Space Systems is the manufacturer of WFOV, a mid-sized spacecraft equipped with an L3Harris infrared sensor payload.
United Launch Alliance postponed USSF-12 on 2022-03-09 due to a customer request.
United Launch Alliance received a contract in 2018 to launch USSF-12.
The Atlas V launch profile for USSF-12 included three firings of its upper stage to deliver the payloads to geosynchronous altitude without large-scale orbit-raising maneuvers by the satellites.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched the USSF-12 mission on 2022-07-01.
Northrop Grumman provided solid rocket boosters and other critical components for the Atlas V rocket that launched the USSF-12 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Atlas V delivered both USSF-12 spacecraft directly to geosynchronous orbit approximately 22,0 m (35,500 km) above the equator about six hours after liftoff.
WFOV’s infrared sensor payload was developed by L3Harris Technologies under a 2016 contract from the U.S. Air Force.