NanoSats Take Secondary Payload to NRO
17 Jun 2012, 00:00 UTC
A Thursday, August 2, 2012 launch date has been set at Vandenberg, Calif. for a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V SLC-3E to boost the classified NROL-36 payload to orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
The vehicle will also carry the following secondary payloads: CINEMA (Cubesat for Ion, Neutral, Electron, Magnetic fields), University of California Berkeley; CSSWE (Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment), University of Colorado at Boulder; CP5, California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo; CXBN (Cosmic X-ray Background Nanosat) Morehead State University; ORSES (ORS Enabler Satellite), US Army Space and Missile Defense Command; Aeneas, University of Southern California; Horus*, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; STARE, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and three Aerocube spacecraft, the Aerospace Corporation.
*The presence of the Horus payload on this mission is unconfirmed.
