Video: Atlas 5 Rocket launches with GPS Satellite

The Orbital ATK’s Cygnus commercial resupply spacecraft, named the SS Deke Slayton II, is packed up and poised for launch to the International Space Station.

A collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the Global Positioning System 2F-11 navigation satellite.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral with NOAA’s GOES-S weather satellite, the second in a series of upgraded observatories destined to cover the western United States and the Pacific Ocean.