Atlas 5 rocket launches SBIRS GEO 2

Blasting off right on time Tuesday at 5:21 p.m. EDT, United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thunders away from Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 carrying the second Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous satellite, or SBIRS GEO 2, for the U.S. military's network of missile early-warning detection spacecraft.

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