Live coverage: Atlas 5 countdown and launch journal

Watch a time-lapse video of the Atlas 5 rocket’s rollout at Cape Canaveral on Feb. 28, on the eve of liftoff with the GOES-S weather satellite.

A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Global Positioning System 2F-11 navigation spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A Vega rocket has blasted off with Europe’s LISA Pathfinder tech demo mission, a probe heading to a station a million miles from Earth to test systems for a future gravitational wave observatory. Liftoff from French Guiana occurred at 0404 GMT Thursday (11:04 p.m. EST Wednesday).