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Video: Atlas takes flight with Cygnus

April 18, 2017 Justin Ray

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 194 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, generates 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine to launch the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship on the OA-7 mission to the International Space Station.

See earlier OA-7 Cygnus coverage.

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Live coverage: Delta 4 rocket lifts off with GPS satellite

August 22, 2019 Stephen Clark

The last flight of the single-core variant of United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 rocket lifted off at 9:06 a.m. EDT (1306 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 207-foot-tall launcher carried a GPS navigation satellite into orbit for the U.S. Air Force.

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NASA orders missions to resupply space station in 2017

March 7, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA has ordered four additional launches to deliver cargo to the International Space Station in 2017 — three from SpaceX and one from Orbital ATK — to cover the research lab’s logistics needs until a new set of resupply contracts take effect.

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Video: Replay of the launch of GovSat 1 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket

January 31, 2018 Stephen Clark

The GovSat 1 communications satellite for SES and the government of Luxembourg lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 4:25 p.m. EST (2125 GMT) Wednesday.

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  • Live coverage: 24 Starlink satellites to launch from California on 100th Falcon 9 rocket of the year
    August 17, 2025
  • SpaceX schedules 10th test flight for Starship, details recent setbacks
    August 16, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
    August 14, 2025
  • ULA launches Vulcan rocket on first Space Force mission
    August 13, 2025
  • Launch preview: ULA to launch first national security mission on a Vulcan rocket
    August 12, 2025
  • SpaceX launches Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites on fifth scheduled attempt
    August 10, 2025
  • Crew 10 returns to Earth with Pacific Ocean splashdown
    August 9, 2025
  • Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 & 13 astronaut, dies at 97
    August 8, 2025
  • SpaceX launches first Falcon 9 rocket from West Coast in two weeks
    August 8, 2025
  • ULA’s Tory Bruno lays out plans for ramping up launch cadence
    August 7, 2025
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