NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) was successfully deployed into orbit approximately 75 minutes after being launched by a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 launch vehicle from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on 10 November 2022, at 09:49 UTC (01:49 PST, 04:49 EST).
Credit: NASA/United Launch Alliance
Separation of the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator
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