Atlas V AEHF-6 Mission Profile

United Launch Alliance will use an Atlas V 551 rocket to launch the sixth and final spacecraft in the Lockheed Martin-built Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) series for the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center. AEHF satellites provide global, survivable, protected communications capabilities for strategic command and tactical warfighters operating on ground, sea and air platforms. Atlas V rockets successfully launched the first five AEHF satellites between 2010 and 2019.

[@Gurumeierhans]

Thanks for using scientific units of measurement

[@TheYoyozo]

Can’t wait for launch on Thursday.

[@muhammadirfanataulawal7630]

Playing KSP surely helps alot to understand the illustration :D

[@curiosityspace9194]

I LOVE ULA!!!!!!!!!!!

[@wirllll]

How about nasa and space X

[@curiosityspace9194]

@@wirllll I Love Of You The Rocket Companys Even Roscosmoss

[@lighted2327]

@@curiosityspace9194 even
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[@javiervazquez2815]

Centaur is a beast 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@snacklesskerbal2204]

Go Atlas!

[@Justin_Martin]

Atlas V AEHF-6 is awesome 🇺🇸👑💕 United Launch Alliance is awesome

[@acemax1124]

Great video and good job 👍 to the creatures. Can't wait for the live launch and I hope we get some real time video footage.

[@michaelstern1945]

Awesome

[@Cyborgnik]

I still can't believe how thin the Center fuselage is.

[@zeitgeist2720]

Centaur

[@THIKKnASS]

Even though I'll be watching telem I hope we get to watch the launch somehow

[@ManjitSingh-kr6mi]

Atlas V aehf-6 is awesome rocket 👑👑💕💕🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@d.cypher2920]

A space force?! Wow.
😁🇺🇸

[@yigitkadir3649]

Does the upper stage stay in space forever?

[@InventorZahran]

I'm not a rocket scientist, but I'm fairly certain it will de-orbit itself and burn up during reentry.

[@NihongoLoFi]

First comment, awesome vid btw

[@Orandu]

Go Centaur!

[@Ajay-pz9ms]

Wow Kerbal Space Programme simulator - almost exactly the same as the game but you need the budget of NASA.

[@NARISHMA42]

Those people aren't nearly 6 feet away from each other.

[@zagros24]

In Iran we're trying to catch up and we will.

[@larrymanley2800]

American ingenuity at its best

[@jasons44]

I want to hear about taking it to the moon

[@pgvasaylaje]

1:00 ULA said sixtynine hundred miles from the number of 6,900

[@DiaChris2004]

Can’t wait to here the sound barrier

[@MrBen527]

you won't

[@Humty2K]

What happens with upper stage after separation with satellite? Just let it coast there?

[@javiervazquez2815]

Most likely goes to a graveyard orbit

[@dowondyang1004]

Hello,ULA,i want to ask a question,the aehf-5's orbit is about more high 3600km than aehf-6,why the same satellite and the same rocket can be so big differience?does the satellite is more weight than aehf-5,or the cubsat have differience?

[@aliplayer1]

What do they do to the second stage after payload deployment? How do they deorbit the centaur upper stage?

[@Matthew35333]

It's not deorbited, since its perigee is almost 11000km and the stage burns to depletion. It will remain there as space junk basically. In a simple gto trajectory, its possible to deorbit a stage, because with each pass it grazes the atmosphere, reducing its velocity rather quickly.

[@Cyborgnik]

It will most likely be put into a graveyard orbit.

[@aliplayer1]

@@Matthew35333 thanks!

[@aliplayer1]

@@Cyborgnik thanks

[@williamduffy1227]

Why can't you land the Atlas V booster like SpaceX lands the Falcon 9? This is 'old space tech' which along with cost-plus contracts is going to be the end of ULA.

[@aaronjacobs3980]

OK, why don't you redesign the atlas v booster (which is 18 years old) so it can land. Or instead of that, why don't you do some research and realise that its impossible to recover the atlas v booster which is why they're replacing it with vulcan

[@javiervazquez2815]

They would have to redesign Atlas which is not worth it since it will retire in like 4-5 years. BECO for the Atlas booster is 4+ minutes so is going really fast, slowing it down would take a lot of fuel