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Atlas V 431
Launched 2005-03-11 21:42 UTCSpace Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
Worldwide
9th
orbital launch attempt in 2005
Lockheed Martin
2nd
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 41
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
84 d 9 h
since the pad's previous launch
Heaviest single payload to geosynchronous transfer orbit to that date. The satellite was to provide L-band mobile communications and wideband data transmission for Inmarsat's global network.
Lockheed Martin's Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM's in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA's return to the moon in 2024.
Launches
80
Successful
77
96%
Upcoming
0
scheduled
Height
59.1m
Diameter
3.8m
To low Earth orbit
15,260kg
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