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Live coverage: Atlas 5 blasts off with four NASA satellites

March 12, 2015 Justin Ray

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Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

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  • SpaceX launches record-breaking back-to-back Falcon 9 rockets for Globalstar, U.S. Space Force
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  • SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
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  • SpaceX launches Tuesday noontime Starlink mission following Monday scrub
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