Video: Time-lapse of Atlas 5’s rollout for launch of GOES-S (members only)

Here’s a look by the numbers of the previous Delta 4 flight history and the remaining flights of the rocket named Delta.

Commercial ziplines have been installed and tested at United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket pad as the emergency escape system if astronauts and ground personnel need to evacuate the Crew Access Tower.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 8 with the U.S. Air Force’s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite, the second launch from Florida’s Coast in a span of less than 35 hours.