Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral

Climbing away from Earth on the power of its liquid hydrogen-fueled main engine and twin solid rockets, a Delta 4 booster successfully launched a new Global Positioning System satellite Wednesday to benefit U.S. military operations and civilian society as a whole.

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, workers have finished the pre-launch assembly and fueling of OSIRIS-REx for the asteroid sample return spacecraft for liftoff Sept. 8.

Watch replays of the launch and landing of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station.