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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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