Atlas 5 rocket poised for NASA satellite launch

BY JUSTIN RAY
SPACEFLIGHT NOW

Posted: August 22, 2012


The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket stands poised at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 for liftoff to deploy NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes.

See our Mission Status Center for the latest news on the launch.

Photo credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now


Nicola Fox, the RBSP deputy project scientist from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, is interviewed by a film crew at the launch pad.

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