Atlas V 401 - NROL-55 Launch - October 8, 2015

Additional Information: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocker blazed into the pre-dawn skies over the Californian coast line on Thursday, lifting off from SLC-3E at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:49 UTC to begin a classified mission for the United States National Reconnaissance Office. Known under its codename NROL-55, the mission involves two Naval Ocean Monitoring Satellites that are headed to an orbit over 1,000 Kilometers in altitude to locate and track foreign ships through the