Launch Photos: NROL-55 Spy Satellite and Cubesats Blast Off

On Oct. 8, 2015, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket soared into space from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:49 a.m. PDT (8:49 a.m. EDT)…Read More » to deliver the classified NROL-55 satellite into orbit. The mission, ULA’s 101st rocket launch, also delivered 13 tiny cubesats into orbit for the NRO and NASA. See photos from the mission, including this one, in our full gallery here. Read our full launch wrap story .   Less «

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