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Air Force Space Command's AFSPC-11 mission is slated to launch April 14 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL.
The launch window opens at 6:53 p.m. and the mission will fly on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
AFSPC-11 features the Continuous Broadcast Augmenting Satellite Communications system as its primary payload, but will also fly a number of secondary payloads to demonstrate an Air Force Research Laboratory capability called the ESPA Augmented Geostationary Laboratory Experiment, dubbed EAGLE.