Photos: 200th Atlas-Centaur launches MUOS 3

Launching for the 200th time and loaded with one of its heaviest cargoes ever, the Atlas-Centaur rocket flexed its muscle and sped away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday night with a U.S. Navy satellite for mobile communications to the military and White House.

This is the United Launch Alliance mission highlights reel for the Atlas 5 rocket with the MUOS 3 satellite for the U.S. Navy.

A final batch of launch photos from the successful AV-052 mission of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying the U.S. Navy’s MUOS 3 communications satellite.