Premium video content for our Spaceflight Now Plus subscribers. Rocket rollout Riding on its mobile launching platform, the Atlas 5 rocket is rolled from its assembly building to the launch pad at Complex 41 just hours before the scheduled liftoff time carrying AMC 16. (4min 41sec file) Play video Atlas 5 news briefing Mission officials hold the pre-launch news conference in Cape Canaveral on Thursday, Dec. 16 to preview the flight of Atlas 5 with AMC 16. (40min 41sec file) Play video AMC 16 launch preview Preview the launch of Lockheed Martin's Atlas 5 rocket carrying the AMERICOM 16 communications spacecraft with this narrated animation package. (2min 52sec file) Play video The AMC 16 spacecraft This narrated movie provides an overview of the Lockheed Martin-built AMC 16 spacecraft for operator SES AMERICOM. (3min 30sec file) Play video Become a subscriber More video
Photo gallery: Atlas 5 rocket rolls to the launch pad
Posted: December 16, 2004
The Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket is rolled from its Vertical Integration Facility assembly building to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 on the evening of December 16 during the final hours of the countdown to loft the AMC 16 communications satellite. Photo: Ben Cooper
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Riding on its mobile launching platform, the Atlas 5 rocket is rolled from its assembly building to the launch pad at Complex 41 just hours before the scheduled liftoff time carrying AMC 16. (4min 41sec file)
Mission officials hold the pre-launch news conference in Cape Canaveral on Thursday, Dec. 16 to preview the flight of Atlas 5 with AMC 16. (40min 41sec file)
Preview the launch of Lockheed Martin's Atlas 5 rocket carrying the AMERICOM 16 communications spacecraft with this narrated animation package. (2min 52sec file)
This narrated movie provides an overview of the Lockheed Martin-built AMC 16 spacecraft for operator SES AMERICOM. (3min 30sec file)
