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Stats: Atlas 5 history and backlog

March 19, 2015 Justin Ray

Here’s a look by the numbers of the previous Atlas 5 flight history and the current backlog and manifest for the rocket.

Stats: Delta 4 history and manifest

March 18, 2015 Justin Ray

Here’s a look by the numbers of the previous Delta 4 flight history and the remaining flights of the rocket named Delta.

Photos: Next GPS satellite readied for launch

March 18, 2015 Justin Ray

The U.S. Air Force’s ninth Global Positioning System (GPS) 2F satellite, GPS 2F-9, is encapsulated in the Delta 4 rocket’s four-meter-diameter nose cone at a processing facility and then moved to the launch pad at Complex 37 for mating to its booster inside the mobile service tower.

Photos: Atlas 5/MMS launch gallery

March 17, 2015 Justin Ray

A photo gallery shows Thursday night’s successful Atlas 5 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral.

Delta/GPS 2F-9 launch timeline

March 15, 2015 Justin Ray

This is the ascent timeline to be followed by the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket in launching the Air Force’s GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite on March 25 at 2:36 p.m. EDT.

On This Date…March 15 and STS-119

March 15, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 2009, shuttle Discovery delivers power payload to space station.

Rocket-mounted cameras show Atlas rising into the night

March 13, 2015 Justin Ray

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that successfully hauled a NASA satellite quartet into a highly elliptical Earth orbit Thursday was fitted with three onboard video cameras that captured some of the major events of ascent.

Snapshots from Atlas 5 launch

March 13, 2015 Justin Ray

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off Thursday night with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale satellite quartet in a successful flight from Cape Canaveral.

On This Date…March 13 and STS-29

March 13, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 1989, Discovery launched a new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

Recap story: Atlas 5 rocket launches NASA satellite quartet

March 13, 2015 Justin Ray

Four magnetic explosion probes in a towering stack atop an Atlas 5 rocket rode a fountain of flame off the launch pad and into Earth orbit Thursday night for a $1.1 billion NASA science investigation into a universal force of nature.