Spaceflight Now: Atlas launch report
AV-068: Atlas 5-401 launches NROL-79
70th Atlas 5 rocket powers covert payload to orbit
Performing a successful spacelift mission for the U.S. spy satellite agency, an Atlas 5 rocket delivered a surveillance package into orbit today believed by analysts to be another pair of tandem sleuths to scoop up radio signals from adversarial ships at sea.
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AV-066: Atlas 5-401 launches SBIRS GEO 3
Atlas 5 rocket delivers vital national asset into space
A new infrared reconnaissance satellite for one of the United States' highest priority space programs -- making early detection of enemy missile launches -- was successfully delivered into orbit Friday by an Atlas 5 rocket.
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AV-071: Atlas 5-431 launches EchoStar 19
Launch to bring high-speed Internet to more Americans
The world's highest capacity broadband satellite, a craft that will connect rural America to high-speed Internet service, successfully rocketed into space today aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 booster.
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AV-069: Atlas 5-541 launches GOES-R
Most advanced U.S. weather satellite in history launched
Revolutionizing the way American meteorologists see the weather, likened to the advancement from black and white television to modern high definition TV, a new observatory was successfully launched Saturday by an Atlas 5 rocket to serve as the linchpin to forecasting what tomorrow will bring.
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AV-062: Atlas 5-401 launches WorldView 4
Commercial satellite will image the Earth in high-res
A companion to the world's most powerful private Earth-imaging satellite rocketed into space today from the U.S. west coast atop an Atlas 5 to double the amount of high-resolution imagery available on the commercial market and satisfy the demands of customers clamoring for more.
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AV-067: Atlas 5-411 launches OSIRIS-REx
Asteroid probe launched in search for the origins of life
Like reaching back in time to examine the conditions that existed in the ancient solar system, NASA today launched a robotic probe to visit Asteroid Bennu and return an unspoiled sample of the primitive body that may hold the seeds of life.
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AV-065: Atlas 5-421 launches NROL-61
Spy satellite infrastructure supported by Atlas 5 launch
A clandestine satellite for the U.S. reconnaissance program was successfully launched by an Atlas 5 rocket today, riding a ferocious torrent of fire and smoke off the pad before disappearing behind a curtain of secrecy.
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AV-063: Atlas 5-551 launches MUOS 5
Navy satellite sails to orbit atop Atlas 5 rocket
For the fifth time in four years, a massive U.S. Navy satellite launched atop an Atlas 5 rocket Friday to finish the military's new $7.7 billion mobile communications framework 22,300 miles in space.
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AV-064: Atlas 5-401 launches Cygnus OA-6
2nd Cygnus in 3 months rockets to orbit on Atlas 5
An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched another Cygnus cargo freighter for Orbital ATK Tuesday night, fulfilling the boosters role in reestablishing America's resupply link to the International Space Station.
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AV-057: Atlas 5-401 launches GPS 2F-12
Last GPS satellite of its generation arrives in space
The main engine rumbling to life. Ice shards breaking free. The rocket lumbering off the pad. The battle against gravity being won once again. That was the scene as the Atlas 5 took flight to cap a generation of Global Positioning System satellites.
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AV-061: Atlas 5-401 launches Cygnus OA-4
Atlas 5 sends Cygnus in hot pursuit of space station
Bound for an orbital rendezvous with the International Space Station on Wednesday, a commercial Cygnus freighter was successfully launched by an Atlas 5 rocket this afternoon to restart American cargo deliveries to the research outpost.
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AV-060: Atlas 5-401 launches GPS 2F-11
Three Atlas 5 launch successes in one month
Completing an October to remember, the third Atlas 5 rocket launch in just 29 days thundered into space Saturday, this time to replace an aging satellite in the Global Positioning System.
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AV-058: Atlas 5-401 launches NROL-55
Second Atlas 5 rocket launched in span of six days
Churning out the launches at a rapid pace, the Atlas 5 program sent another rocket soaring like clockwork today for deployment of a national security satellite duo from California.
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AV-059: Atlas 5-421 launches Morelos 3
100 successes and counting for United Launch Alliance
The 100th flight by United Launch Alliance took off Friday for deployment of a sophisticated geomobile communications satellite to bridge the digital divide in Mexico while extending the rocket company's unparalleled record of success in launching $80 billion in space assets.
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AV-056: Atlas 5-551 launches MUOS 4
Atlas 5 completes heavy-duty launch assignment
In a breath-taking display at daybreak Wednesday, an Atlas rocket powered an enormous U.S. Navy satellite into space to close the last remaining gap and give global reach to the military's new mobile communications system.
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AV-055: Atlas 5-401 launches GPS 2F-10
Atlas 5 delivers GPS satellite 11,000 miles up
The ubiquitous Global Positioning System that ties the space program to everyday life on Earth, providing precise navigation to the world through a constellation of orbiting satellites, will be strengthened courtesy of a new craft launched Wednesday.
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AV-054: Atlas 5-501 launches fourth X-37B
X-37B embarks on fourth voyage in orbit
A windowless, robotic space shuttle with stubby wings, two tail fins, its belly covered with black thermal tiles, clam-shell doors that swing open to reveal a small payload bay and a solar array that unfurls for powering ultralong-duration missions rode back into orbit Wednesday on the fourth mission of the Air Force's reusable X-37B spaceplane project.
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AV-053: Atlas 5-421 launches MMS
Atlas 5 rocket launches NASA satellite quartet
Four magnetic explosion probes in a towering stack atop an Atlas 5 rocket rode a fountain of flame off the launch pad and into Earth orbit Thursday night for a $1.1 billion NASA science investigation into a universal force of nature.
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AV-052: Atlas 5-551 launches MUOS 3
200th Atlas-Centaur delivers Navy satellite
Launching for the 200th time and loaded with one of its heaviest cargoes ever, the Atlas-Centaur rocket flexed its muscle and sped away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday night with a U.S. Navy satellite for mobile communications to the military and White House.
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AV-051: Atlas 5-541 launches NROL-35
Record-setting Atlas flies with new Centaur engine
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket put on a display of power, sound and light Friday evening at Vandenberg Air Force Base in launching a clandestine national security payload, then successfully debuted a new upper stage engine as it flew over the horizon.
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AV-050: Atlas 5-401 launches GPS 2F-8
50th Atlas 5 rocket puts up new GPS satellite
Launching for the 50th time, an Atlas 5 rocket flew a milestone mission Wednesday in deploying a Global Positioning System satellite for the worldwide utility.
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AV-049: Atlas 5-401 launches CLIO
Mystery satellite blasts off atop Atlas 5 rocket
Rocketing through gloomy skies with a payload clouded in a veil of secrecy, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 booster fired away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday to deploy a satellite thousands of miles above Earth.
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AV-047: Atlas 5-401 launches WorldView 3
New commercial eye in the sky launched into space
An Atlas 5 rocket carrying the most powerful Earth-imaging satellite ever built for the commercial market blasted off from California and streaked into orbit Wednesday, the latest in a series of rapid-fire flights by rocket-builder United Launch Alliance.
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AV-048: Atlas 5-401 launches GPS 2F-7
Atlas 5 rocket deploys new GPS navigation satellite
A rocket launch to serve the world blasted off Friday night from Florida carrying a new Global Positioning System satellite to transmit omnipresent navigation and timing information to users across the planet.
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AV-046: Atlas 5-401 launches NROL-33
Atlas 5 launches payload for intelligence community
Completing a pair of missions in one week's time, a feat also performed last month, United Launch Alliance sent an Atlas 5 rocket soaring Thursday morning.
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AV-045: Atlas 5-541 launches NROL-67
Hush-hush payload rides Atlas 5 rocket into orbit
Setting sail at mid-day on a marathon trip to orbit, an Atlas 5 rocket launched a classified spacecraft for the National Reconnaissance Office on Thursday.
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AV-044: Atlas 5-401 launches DMSP F19
U.S. military weather observatory fires into orbit
A new global weather observatory for the U.S. armed forces was lofted into orbit aboard its Atlas 5 booster rocket from California on Thursday to provide tactical forecasts to military operations.
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AV-043: Atlas 5-401 launches TDRS L
Atlas rocket puts up NASA communications spacecraft
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket topped with a NASA science-relay satellite sped into space Thursday night, lighting up Florida's Space Coast with a raucous liftoff show.
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AV-042: Atlas 5-501 launches NROL-39
Classified spy satellite launches on Atlas 5 rocket
A classified U.S. spy payload rocketed into orbit from California on an Atlas 5 launcher Thursday, joining the nation's eyes and ears in the sky to supply intelligence to the government's national security agencies.
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AV-038: Atlas 5-401 launches MAVEN
Mars atmospheric probe blasts off aboard Atlas 5
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket dispatched a $671 million gas-sniffing sleuth to Mars on Monday, taking the first step in a long-distance voyage across the solar system to survey the Martian atmosphere and decipher an enigma nearly as old as the solar system itself.
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AV-041: Atlas 5-531 launches AEHF 3
Secure communications satellite launched by Atlas 5
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket raced away from its launch pad in the Florida wetlands early Wednesday, streaking into a moonlit predawn sky and deploying an ultra-secure, jam-resistant communications satellite in orbit for the U.S. Air Force.
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AV-040: Atlas 5-551 launches MUOS 2
Atlas 5 lifts massive Navy satellite into orbit
Leaping off the launch pad Friday in its most powerful arrangement to boost its heaviest payload into orbit, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully deployed the second in a series of sophisticated spacecraft to grow the U.S. Navy's new mobile communications network that will span the globe.
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AV-039: Atlas 5-401 launches GPS 2F-4
Atlas 5 navigates its way to successful GPS launch
An Atlas 5 rocket successfully powered a replacement Global Positioning System satellite into space Wednesday to bolster the navigation utility for military and civil users around the world.
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AV-037: Atlas 5-401 launches SBIRS GEO 2
Fourth launch in four months for Atlas 5
Launching. Just launching. That's been the mantra for the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket program, which successfully completed its fourth flight in four months on Tuesday by boosting a surveillance satellite into orbit for the Pentagon.
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AV-035: Atlas 5-401 launches Landsat
Atlas 5 rocket launch continues legacy of Landsat
Roaring off the launch pad to build upon a 40-year legacy of monitoring the Earth's environment from space, the latest and greatest satellite carrying the name Landsat successfully arrived in orbit Monday.
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AV-036: Atlas 5-401 launches TDRS K
Atlas 5 puts science-relay satellite into orbit for NASA
Advancing from the days of ground stations providing sporadic coverage of man's early exploits in space to the creation of an orbiting satellite network for constant communications, the third generation of NASA's tracking stations in the sky was launched Wednesday night.
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AV-034: Atlas 5-501 launches third X-37B
Atlas 5 serves as mini space shuttle's booster rocket
A miniature military space shuttle that circled the world for 224 days on a shakedown cruise in 2010 rocketed back into orbit Tuesday to demonstrate the reusability of the X-37B spaceplane.
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AV-033: Atlas 5-401 launches NROL-36
California Atlas 5 finally flies with flock of satellites
Hoisting a clandestine prime payload -- likely a pair of formation-flying ocean surveillance satellites -- and a menagerie of micro missions hitchhiking into space, the Atlas 5 rocket reeled off another successful performance Thursday in a rare mid-day launch from California.
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AV-032: Atlas 5-401 launches RBSP
Atlas launches mission 50 years in the making
A mission to answer questions as old as the space age launched from Cape Canaveral Thursday morning as two armored satellites were sent into hellish orbits that submerge the craft in Earth's punishing radiation belts.
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AV-023: Atlas 5-401 launches NROL-38
Atlas 5 thunders to milestone in rocket history
Marking a milestone in flight at the fore of American rocketry, an Atlas 5 majestically rose away from Cape Canaveral Wednesday on the 50th mission for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.
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Marvel at the amazing photography from Wednesday's Atlas 5 rocket blastoff as captured through United Launch Alliance cameras around Complex 41.
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AV-031: Atlas 5-531 launches AEHF 2
Satellite for secure wartime communications goes up
Forging a new constellation of ultra-secure communications satellites that will ring the globe to link the president with military forces anywhere on the planet, an Atlas 5 rocket roared to space Friday to continue putting the pieces in place for the warfighter.
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Photo gallery: Atlas 5 rocket thunders into space
Marking its 30th flight, the Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched Friday afternoon carrying a secure communications satellite for the U.S. government. It also marked United Launch Alliance's 60th mission. Relive the liftoff through the camera lenses of ULA's photographer.
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AV-030: Atlas 5-551 launches MUOS 1
Atlas 5 rocket navigates new Navy satellite into orbit
Like erecting a cellular telephone tower 22,300 miles tall, the U.S. Navy's first-of-its-kind mobile communications satellite rose high above Earth Friday night to provide 3G voice, data and video services to military troops on the move.
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Centaur set for Flight 200
The venerable U.S. upper stage rocket -- the Centaur -- that created the pathway to the Moon and every planet across the solar system will be making its 200th flight next Thursday in a milestone mission to boost the U.S. Navy's sophisticated new mobile communications satellite to orbit.
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Rocketcams offer dazzling views of Atlas 5 launch
When the largest and most powerful Atlas rocket in history thundered to space Friday, three onboard video cameras captured the stunning views of what it's like to ride the vehicle off the launch pad and into orbit.
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AV-028: Atlas 5-541 launches MSL
Mars Science Laboratory begins cruise to Red Planet
A towering Atlas 5 rocket flashed to life and vaulted into space Saturday, putting on a spectacular weekend sky show as it boosted NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover on an eight-and-a-half-month 352-million-mile voyage to the Red Planet.
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Photo gallery: Atlas 5 rocket sets sail for Mars
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched the Mars Science Laboratory from Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 on Saturday at 10:02 a.m. EST, sending Earth's Curiosity to explore the red planet. Check out this complete launch photo gallery taken by ULA's cameraman.
   IMAGES: LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY
AV-029: Atlas 5-551 launches Juno
Juno spacecraft leaves Earth for journey to Jupiter
United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket roared to life Friday and dispatched NASA's solar-powered Juno space probe on a five-year voyage to Jupiter, the first step in a $1.1 billion mission to look for clues about the origins of the solar system in the hidden heart of its largest planet.
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Get to know Juno's ride:
The Atlas 5 rocket

This rocket's family name has been launching robotic explorers throughout the solar system for nearly 50 years, revolutionizing mankind's knowledge about the planets and our place in the Universe.
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AV-022: Atlas 5-401 launches SBIRS GEO-1
Beginning a new generation of missile early-warning
For the past four decades a band of orbiting sentinels has watched the world and sounded the alarm when enemy missiles take flight. Now, a new generation of advanced satellites that began launching Saturday will continue standing guard while also giving the U.S. military better insights into global hotspots.
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   IMAGES: SHOTS FROM OUR PAD CAMERA
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   PANORAMAS: COMPLEX 41 AND THE ATLAS 5
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AV-027: Atlas 5-411 launches NROL-34
Primetime rocket launch lights up the West Coast
A whirlwind of national security space launches over the past seven months using six rockets and four pads was completed successfully Thursday night when an Atlas 5 booster soared from California.
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   IMAGES: LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY
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   IMAGES: AIR FORCE PHOTO COLLECTION
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   IMAGES: PRE-LAUNCH SHOTS FROM WEDNESDAY
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AV-026: Atlas 5-501 launches second X-37B
Atlas rocket sends secret military shuttle to space
Shot into orbit Saturday by a gleaming white and gold Atlas 5 rocket, the U.S. Air Force's second top secret X-37B spaceplane will push the boundaries of the craft's design and could stay in orbit longer than its predecessor.
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AV-025: Atlas 5-501 launches NROL-41
Atlas 5 rocket launches clandestine spacecraft
Igniting a major surge of five national security space launches in the next few months, an Atlas 5 rocket soared away from America's western spaceport Monday night carrying a covert spy satellite.
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   IMAGES: A QUIET SUNDAY ON THE PAD
   IMAGES: MOBILE SERVICE GANTRY ROLLED BACK
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AV-019: Atlas 5-531 launches AEHF 1
Rise and shine: Atlas 5 rocket soars at dawn
A sophisticated satellite was launched into space Saturday to improve the preeminent path of communications between the president, military commanders and troops on the battlefield, ensuring a survivable line of contact even in hellish scenarios of nuclear warfare.
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AV-012: Atlas 5-501 launches X-37B
U.S. Air Force's X-37B spaceplane circling Earth
An Atlas 5 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral at sunset April 22 to propel into orbit the U.S. military's experimental X-37B spaceplane, the prototype for an unmanned reusable space shuttle.
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AV-021: Atlas 5-401 launches SDO
Atlas launches solar probe with down-to-Earth purpose
Greeted by blustery weather and deep blue skies, an Atlas 5 rocket soared into space February 11, successfully placing an $848 million satellite on track to probe the sun and unravel its fundamental effects on Earth and society.
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AV-024: Atlas 5-431 launches Intelsat 14
Atlas 5 launches Intelsat communications satellite
An international telecommunications satellite that will bridge the Atlantic with a broad reach to four continents was successfully hauled into orbit November 23 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket that completed its last purely commercial launch for the foreseeable future.
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AV-017: Atlas 5-401 launches DMSP F18
U.S. military's new weather satellite gets foggy sendoff
An Atlas 5 rocket escaped the heavy blanket of fog smothering its launch pad Sunday morning and successfully powered to space to deploy a new global weather observatory for America's military.
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AV-018: Atlas 5-401 launches PAN
Atlas rocket successfully launches its secret payload
A mysterious spacecraft whose mission is cloaked in secrecy left Cape Canaveral atop the hard-to-miss roar of its Atlas 5 rocket and then revealed a major clue about itself while cruising above a satellite-tracking hobbyist a short time later.
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AV-020: Atlas 5-401 launches LRO/LCROSS
Rocket launch puts NASA on journey back to the Moon
A robotic scout to reconnoiter the Moon like never before and a sleuth that will dig into a tantalizing mystery at the lunar south pole blasted off June 18 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
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   PICTURES: SECOND BATCH OF LAUNCH SHOTS
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   PICTURES: ATLAS POISED FOR LAUNCH
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   MOVIES: HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO
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LRO: 21st century orbiter to map the Moon
When the next generation of lunar astronauts step foot on the Moon in the years ahead, the definitive travel guide compiled by an instrument-laden spacecraft launching this week will detail the best and worst places to go and the risks the crews could face.

LCROSS: A smashing way to answer watery question
Are polar craters on the Moon, eternally dark places where sunlight hasn't been seen for billions of years, harboring natural reservoirs of water ice that could be farmed by future colonists? That's a question that NASA's audacious lunar impactor experiment plans to answer.
Moon-bound launch: Rocket cameras show the way
Hitch a ride aboard the Atlas 5 rocket destined for the Moon with this dazzling footage provided by video cameras facing forward and aft. See the liftoff and ascent through the clouds, the first stage separate, the Centaur ignite and the payload shroud jettison.
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AV-016: Atlas 5-421 launches WGS 2
Atlas 5 rocket successfully launches military satellite
It was a perfect Friday night flight for the Atlas 5 rocket, completing a military mission that put an advanced communications spacecraft into the sky to serve U.S. forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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AV-014: Atlas 5-421 launches ICO G1
Atlas 5 rocket puts up mobile services satellite
Thundering out of Cape Canaveral on its first commercial flight in two years and carrying its heaviest payload ever, an Atlas 5 rocket on April 14 successfully launched a mobile communications satellite to assist and entertain Americans on the go.
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AV-006: Atlas 5-411 launches NROL-28
Atlas 5 rocket launches from California for first time
America's Atlas 5 rocket made its much-anticipated maiden mission from the West Coast on March 13, piercing ground-hugging clouds and fog that blanketed the launch pad to send a secretive spy satellite into orbit.
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AV-015: Atlas 5-401 launches NROL-24
Atlas 5 lofts clandestine communications satellite
Its thunderous departure out of Cape Canaveral on Monday afternoon was hard to miss, but the hush-hush ascent of the Atlas 5 rocket was wrapped in an unusual cloak of secrecy as the booster propelled high above Earth a classified spacecraft designed to communicate with spy satellites.
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AV-011: Atlas 5-421 launches WGS SV1
Military communications take 'quantum leap'
An advanced communications satellite with as much capacity as the entire orbiting fleet of craft that it will help replace was successfully shot into orbit Wednesday night atop a 19-story Atlas 5 rocket.
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We present four picturesque panoramas taken at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 on Wednesday afternoon, just a few hours before the Atlas 5 rocket was fueled and successfully launched to place a military communications satellite into orbit.
PANORAMA 1 | PANORAMA 2 | PANORAMA 3 | PANORAMA 4
PHOTO GALLERY | LAUNCH STORY
AV-009: Atlas 5-401 launches NROL-30
Atlas 5 rocket experiences problem during launch
The Atlas rocket program's spotless success record over the past 80 flights in 14 years was hit with a blemish June 15 while launching a classified U.S. national security satellite payload.
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AV-013: Atlas 5-401 launches STP 1
Cluster of military payloads launches on Atlas 5 rocket
The Atlas 5 rocket's first flight for the U.S. Air Force launched Thursday night from Florida, on an unusually complex mission to deploy a flock of military research satellites into two different orbits. Read about the rocket's climb to orbit in our status center.
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AV-008: Atlas 5-411 launches ASTRA 1KR
Atlas 5 rocket launches TV broadcast craft for Europe
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket kept its appointment to launch a television broadcast satellite that will serve million of homes across Europe, successfully roaring off a Florida launch pad April 20 on the exact minute scheduled months in advance.
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AV-010: Atlas 5-551 launches New Horizons
Probe sets sail on voyage to the outer solar system
A supercharged Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons probe roared to life and vaulted away from Earth January 19 on a three-billion-mile, nine-year voyage to the frigid edge of the solar system.
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Pluto-bound probe rolls out to the pad on eve of launch
A grand adventure to explore the outer frontier of the solar system was moved to the launch pad Monday morning for the final day of preparations leading to blastoff.
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AV-007: Atlas 5-401 launches Mars Orbiter
Sharp-eyed orbiter dispatched to Mars
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket boosted NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter into space August 12, kicking off a $720 million mission to sniff out underground ice deposits, to map the red planet's geology with unprecedented clarity and to monitor its tenuous, dusty atmosphere in an ongoing scientific assault.
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Pre-launch photo gallery
This is a gallery of Lockheed Martin photos showing the Atlas 5 rocket's nighttime from the Vertical Integration Facility assembly building to the Complex 41 launch pad Wednesday night and daytime views of the vehicle during Thursday's post-scrub countdown recycle.
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Mars launch photo gallery
The first interplanetary Atlas 5 rocket was launched Friday from Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 to propel NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on its seven-month voyage to the Red Planet. This is a gallery of photos showing the Lockheed Martin-built rocket's beautiful morning liftoff.
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AV-004: Atlas 5-431 launches Inmarsat 4-F1
Atlas rocket family extends launch success record
Riding the most powerful Atlas rocket in history, the world's heaviest commercial communications satellite is circling the Earth following Friday's fast and fiery blastoff from Cape Canaveral.
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Photo gallery: rocket rollout
Riding atop a mobile launching platform, the Atlas 5 rocket is rolled from its assembly building to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 just hours before its planned liftoff time carrying the Inmarsat 4-F1 communications satellite payload. Although the launch attempt was later scrubbed, the rocket remained on the pad during the 24-hour postponement.
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Photo gallery: Atlas 5 rocket launch for Inmarsat
This collection of photographs taken from a variety of locales captures the successful launch of Lockheed Martin's fifth Atlas 5 rocket. The mission from Cape Canaveral placed the Inmarsat 4-F1 mobile communications satellite into Earth orbit.
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AC-206: Atlas 3B launches NRO craft
Last Atlas 3 rocket launches a pair of spy satellites
While its liftoff was hidden by a dense blanket of fog draped over Cape Canaveral's Complex 36 Thursday morning, the last Lockheed Martin Atlas 3 rocket flew into the history books in fine style as it successfully launched two formation-flying spy satellites probably meant to track enemy ships at sea.
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Atlas rocket workers say goodbye to Complex 36
After heart-felt speeches and toasts to say goodbye to the launch site that Atlas-Centaur rockets have called their Cape Canaveral home since the 1960s, the spotlights shining on Complex 36 were turned off in a ceremony following's Thursday's liftoff.
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Photo gallery: Final launch for Atlas 3 rocket
This collection of pictures from last week's successful Lockheed Martin Atlas 3 rocket launch covers retraction of the mobile service tower, the foggy blastoff from Cape Canaveral and the post-liftoff ceremony inside the Complex 36 blockhouse.
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AV-005: Atlas 5-521 launches AMC-16
Atlas 5 rocket completes another successful launch
Call it the ultimate whirlwind experience in the rocket business. In the span of 12 hours, Lockheed Martin's Atlas 5 rocket went to the launch pad, took on its fuel, persevered through a couple of technical bugs, roared off the planet on 31 million horsepower and was rewarded with another success as it deployed a commercial satellite cargo into orbit.
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AC-167: Atlas 2AS launches NRO craft
Atlas 2 rocket retires with remarkable record
Lockheed Martin's Atlas 2 family of boosters rocketed into retirement August 31, placing a classified U.S. national security satellite into space following a sunset sendoff from Cape Canaveral.
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Launch team salutes Cape's pad 36A after final liftoff
It was the starting point for dozens of commercial communications satellites, military spacecraft and pioneering space probes, including the first man-made object to journey outside our solar system. But after 42 years of Atlas rocket launches, pad 36A saw its final blastoff August 31.
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AC-166: Atlas 2AS launches AMC-11
Next-to-last Atlas 2AS rocket lofts TV satellite
With its retirement looming on the horizon, Lockheed Martin's Atlas 2AS rocket kept its flawless success record alive and well May 19 with the launch of a broadcasting satellite that will aid the expansion of high-definition TV programming across the United States.
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Photo gallery: Mobile Service Tower rollback
This collection of images shows the retraction of launch pad 36B's mobile service tower from around the Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket during Wednesday's countdown.
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Photo gallery: Launch of Atlas 2AS rocket
Wednesday's spectacular late afternoon liftoff of Lockheed Martin's next-to-last Atlas 2AS rocket from Cape Canaveral is captured in this gallery of photos.
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AC-163: Atlas 2AS launches Superbird 6
Japanese Superbird soars to space atop Atlas launcher
Blessed with perfect weather for a space shot and a smooth-as-silk countdown, a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket blasted off April 15 to deliver a Japanese communications satellite into a record-setting high orbit designed to economize the payload's precious fuel supply.
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AC-202: Atlas 3A launches MBSAT
Mobile communications satellite launched for Asia
Lockheed Martin's Atlas 3 rocket put on a late-night sky show Saturday, ripping a fiery trail to space to deploy the Mobile Broadcasting Satellite that will transmit video, music and news to the palm of your hand.
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AC-165: Atlas 2AS launches AMC-10
American TV watchers to reap benefits of launch
Starting this spring when U.S. cable television viewers flip on the Discovery Channel, MTV, Nickelodeon or Showtime, they will be watching the channels via a broadcasting satellite successfully launched into space February 5 from Cape Canaveral.
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AC-203: Atlas 3B launches UHF F11
Atlas rocket launches on Centennial of Flight
A century after man made the first powered flight -- the Wright brothers' historic achievement that set in motion the realization of aviation and spaceflight dreams -- an American rocket with a Russian-made engine soared successfully December 17 to put a communications satellite high above Earth.
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AC-164: Atlas 2AS launches NRO craft
Atlas rocket successfully soars on secret mission
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket carried out a clandestine mission in the predawn darkness December 2, deploying into space what is believed to be a package of ocean surveillance satellites to aid the U.S. government track suspicious ships in the global fight against terrorism.
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Observers track secret satellites launched Tuesday
Serving as space-age sleuths tracking spy satellites high above Earth, a band of sky-watchers scattered around the globe are offering their insights into a clandestine cargo launched Tuesday atop an Atlas rocket from California.
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This new collection of images shows the December 2 blastoff of the Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket carrying a classified cargo from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The gallery follows the first minutes of flight as seen from still and video cameras.
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AV-003: Atlas 5-521 launches Rainbow 1
Enhanced version of Atlas 5 rocket debuts successfully
The largest and most powerful Atlas rocket in history rushed off its Cape Canaveral pad on a river of golden flame July 17 to expand Lockheed Martin's launcher family.
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Movies from Atlas 5 tour
Lockheed Martin hosted an extraordinary tour for media representatives in mid-July, giving the reporters an upclose look at the fully assembled Atlas 5 rocket inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41. The rocket's new nose cone and solid rocket boosters were of particular interest since they will be flying for the first time on this launch.
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AV-002: Atlas 5-401 launches Hellas Sat
First Greek satellite launch performed by Atlas 5 rocket
The May 13 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral wasn't your every day satellite delivery mission. Sure, it had that unmistakable crackling roar and golden tail of fire. But the successful second flight of Lockheed Martin's Atlas 5 rocket began with a history-making accomplishment and ended with Greece achieving its first presence in space.
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AC-205: Atlas 3B launches AsiaSat 4
Atlas 3 rocket gives Asian satellite ride to orbit
An Asian telecommunications spacecraft that will cover over 40 countries from the Middle East to New Zealand was successfully launched April 11 by a Lockheed Martin Atlas 3B rocket from Cape Canaveral.
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AC-144: Atlas 2A launches TDRS-J
NASA communications relay craft rides Atlas into space
Blasted into orbit December 4 by Lockheed Martin's final Atlas 2A booster, an advanced replacement satellite is en route to join NASA's flotilla of communications spacecraft designed to relay Hubble's dazzling views of the cosmos, link astronauts and mission control and track launching rockets.
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AC-159: Atlas 2AS launches Hispasat 1D
Spanish satellite soars aboard Atlas 2AS rocket
Like clockwork, a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket blasted off on schedule September 18, toting a Spanish telecommunications satellite high above Earth to rack up another successful launch.
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AV-001: Maiden voyage of Atlas 5
Next-generation Atlas 5 sailed 'perfect' first voyage
Riding a tongue of golden flame from its Russian-made engine, Lockheed Martin's first Atlas 5 booster sailed into space August 21 to successfully open a new chapter for America's rocket industry.
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AC-143: Atlas 2A launches TDRS-I
Atlas 2A rocket launches NASA data relay satellite
An advanced communications satellite built to keep NASA's orbiting data relay network working for years to come was successfully hauled into space March 8 aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket.
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AC-204: Atlas 3B launches EchoStar 7
Lockheed Martin Atlas 3B rocket has successful debut
After more than 40 years of flights using numerous reincarnations, the evolution of the American Atlas rocket took another step February 21 with the successful maiden launch of the largest and most powerful version of the storied booster - the Atlas 3B.
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AC-162: Atlas 2AS launches NRO craft
Atlas 2AS rocket propels top-secret cargo into orbit
While America strikes back against terrorism half-way around the world, a surge of three previously-planned U.S. national security satellite launches in one month's time was completed successfully October 10 as a Lockheed Martin Atlas rocket soared into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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AC-160: Atlas 2AS launches NRO craft
Clandestine cargo carried into space by Atlas rocket
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket lumbered off its foggy launch pad September 8 carrying its heaviest cargo ever, a hush-hush spy satellite payload that observers suspect will eavesdrop on enemy ships sailing across the vast oceans of planet Earth.
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AC-142: Atlas 2A launches GOES-M
Atlas rocket launches U.S. weather satellite
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on July 23 and placed the GOES-M weather satellite into the proper orbit.
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AC-156: Atlas 2AS launches ICO F-2
Atlas launches foundation of ICO satellite system
The orbital assembly of a new wireless telephone and data relay satellite network began on June 19 when a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket successfully launched the cornerstone spacecraft for the ICO system.
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AC-157: Atlas 2AS launches NRO craft
Atlas rocket launches classified cargo
A satellite cargo hidden in a veil of secrecy was successfully transported into space by a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket on December 5 during a widely watched launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral.
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AC-140: Atlas 2A launches DSCS B11
Atlas rocket delivers U.S. government satellite aloft
A $200 million satellite that will relay sensitive U.S. national security communications between the president, military and diplomats was rocketed into orbit October 19 by a Lockheed Martin Atlas booster.
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AC-161: Atlas 2AS launches EchoStar 6
EchoStar 6 TV satellite delivered to orbit by Atlas
Lockheed Martin's commercial Atlas rocket fleet kept its long-running success streak unblemished July 14 by lofting into space the most powerful direct broadcasting satellite.
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AC-139: Atlas 2A launches TDRS-H
Updated NASA tracking satellite launched into space
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket soared into the Central Florida morning sky June 30 on a $395 million mission to fortify NASA's communications relay link between Earth and space.
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AC-201: Inaugural Atlas 3A rocket
First Atlas 3 gives Lockheed Martin 'exhilarating' ride
Lockheed Martin officials were still savoring the sweet thrill of success on Thursday, May 25, one day after the Atlas 3 rocket flew a perfect inaugural flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Atlas 3 rocket achieves success in debut launch
A rocket born of American and Russian space technology sailed smoothly through its maiden voyage on May 24, bucking the recent trend of misfortune during inaugural launches.
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Atlas 3 rocket poised to fly historic maiden voyage
American and Russian technology once poised to annihilate the enemy country will come together for a peaceful and historic marriage at Cape Canaveral when Lockheed Martin launches the first Atlas 3 rocket.
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AC-137: Atlas 2A launches GOES-L
U.S. has a new weather satellite circling Earth
The United States launched its newest weather-watching satellite on May 3 to ensure forecasters have accurate information during this summer's predicted active hurricane season.
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Critical new U.S. weather satellite ready for launch
A sophisticated eye-in-the-sky weather satellite is awaiting a predawn launch into space on May 3 to serve as reinforcement for the United States. A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket will loft the GOES-L satellite from Cape Canaveral.
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AC-158: Atlas 2AS launches Hispasat 1C
Spanish satellite rides Atlas rocket into Earth orbit
Neither the weather nor a minor technical problem could spoil the February 3 launch of a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket carrying the Spanish Hispasat 1C communications satellite.
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AC-138: Atlas 2A launches DSCS-B8
Atlas soars into 2000
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket streaked into the Florida night sky on January 20, hurling a U.S. Air Force satellite into orbit to relay communications between military commanders and troops around the globe.
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AC-141: Atlas 2AS launches Terra
Atlas rocket launches NASA's Terra satellite
The first Atlas-Centaur rocket to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California was a success on December 18. The Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS vehicle placed NASA's Terra environmental research satellite into near-polar orbit.
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Terra to lead the way in NASA's Earth research
NASA plans to launch Terra on Thursday, the "flagship" to the Earth Observing System series of satellites. EOS is part of a precedent setting program designed to provide daily information on the health of the planet.
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