Atlas 5 – Page 70 – Spaceflight Now

July 24, 2025

Breaking News

[ July 23, 2025 ] NASA probes to study how the solar wind triggers potentially dangerous ‘space weather’ Falcon 9
[ July 22, 2025 ] FAA: ‘Regional power outage’ causes last-minute scrub of NASA’s TRACERS mission Falcon 9
[ July 21, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 15th mission for SES following one-day scrub Falcon 9
[ July 18, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into polar orbit on Falcon 9 rocket from California Falcon 9
[ July 15, 2025 ] SpaceX launches first of three missions for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation Falcon 9

GPS modernization continues with quick pace of launches

October 13, 2014 Stephen Clark

A new satellite launched Aug. 1 has joined the U.S. Air Force’s GPS navigation network to help guide everything from bombs to road trippers to their destinations, with final preparations on track to send up another GPS spacecraft at the end of October.

Mysterious satellite launched from Florida by Atlas 5 rocket

September 16, 2014 Stephen Clark

Rocketing through gloomy skies with a payload clouded in a veil of secrecy, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fired away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday to deploy a satellite thousands of miles above Earth.