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The Mission

		Rocket: Atlas 5 (AV-025) Payload: NROL-41 Date: Sept. 20, 2010 Time: 9:03 p.m. PDT Site: SLC-3E, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California Feed: AMC 1, C-band, Transponder 23, 103° West Mission Status Center Photos: Pre-flight Photos: Quiet Sunday Photos: Gantry rollback Photos: The launch Our Atlas archive

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Tower rolled back for Atlas 5 launch

The mobile service gantry retracts to reveal the Atlas 5 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 3-East for the NROL-41 mission.

Photo credit: Patrick H. Corkery/United Launch Alliance