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Originally Posted by Kunama
NASA launched the AEHF-3 Satellite aboard an Atlas V yesterday, its ground path would put it west of Australia at stage 4 (separation of aehf3 from launch vehicle) Ground Track is right, I am not sure if timing coincides.
If so, these images would also have been taken from the USN Diego Garcia Facility
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Liftoff at 08:10 UTC which corresponded to 18:10 AEST.
According to here, spacecraft separation took place at 50 minutes 58 seconds elapsed
flight time, which would make it around 19:01 AEST.
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/...f-3-satellite/