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Live coverage: Atlas 5 countdown and launch journal

September 19, 2017 Justin Ray

Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the NROL-42 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.

(Launch webcast begins at 10:10 p.m. local / 1:10 a.m. EDT / 0510 GMT)

Entries below listed as EDT (subtract 3 hours for local time; add 4 hours for GMT)

  • Atlas 5
  • AV-072
  • Mission Status Center
  • National Reconnaissance Office
  • NROL-42
  • United Launch Alliance
  • Vandenberg Air Force Base

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Atlas 5

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Watch a replay of the Atlas 5 rocket soaring into space on 14 April carrying multiple U.S. Air Force communications and tech demo satellites.

Falcon 9

Live coverage: SpaceX launches first upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket

May 10, 2018 Stephen Clark

SpaceX launched the first of the company’s upgraded generation of Falcon 9 launchers, known as Block 5, from the Kennedy Space Center on Friday at 4:14 p.m. EDT (2014 GMT). The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with Bangladesh’s first communications satellite, and SpaceX recovered the rocket’s first stage on a vessel in the Atlantic Ocean.

News Headlines

  • U.S. Space Force picks Blue Origin bid for expanding satellite processing at Cape Canaveral
    October 9, 2025
  • SpaceX delays launching Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites amid backdrop of poor weather
    October 9, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites with a Falcon 9 booster flying for a 29th time
    October 7, 2025
  • SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on 90th Starlink mission of 2025
    October 6, 2025
  • SpaceX to launch 4 Falcon Heavy rockets as part of newest U.S. national security missions award
    October 4, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 3rd consecutive Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB, uninterrupted by a Cape mission
    October 2, 2025
  • ViaSat-3 F2 satellite arrives in Florida ahead of late October launch
    October 1, 2025
  • Report argues NASA is illegally using President’s Budget Request to circumvent Congress’ budgeting process
    October 1, 2025
  • Axiom Space taps Portuguese physiologist as first ‘Project Astronaut’
    September 30, 2025
  • Ground testing anomaly destroys Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha booster intended for next flight
    September 30, 2025
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