A classified spacecraft payload, NROL-24, is scheduled for launch on 2007 Dec 10 at 22:04 UTC (17:04 EST), from SLC-41, Cape Canaveral, aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket. The rocket will fly with a four-metre fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage. Details about the payload are classified, but it is suspected that it will replace an aging SDS communications satellite: