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
Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 4:18 p.m. EDT (2018 GMT), following a delay of more than an hour to troubleshoot a ground hydraulics controller. The Atlas 5 launched with the U.S. military’s sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency strategic communications satellite.
Falcon 9
Live coverage: Falcon 9 blasts off with X-37B mini-shuttle
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B mini-shuttle, an unpiloted orbiting military laboratory. Liftoff occurred at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT), and the Falcon 9’s first stage booster successfully landed at Cape Canaveral a few minutes later.