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Video: Atlas 5 GPS 2F-8 Launch Highlights

October 30, 2014 Spaceflight Now

Video highlights of the 50th Atlas 5 flight. The United Launch Alliance rocket carried the eighth Global Positioning System (GPS 2F-8) satellite for the U.S. Air Force.

Video: Atlas 5 Rocket launches with GPS Satellite

October 29, 2014 Spaceflight Now

The 50th Atlas 5 rocket lifts off From Cape Canaveral carrying a GPS satellite.

Reporters run for cover as Antares rocket explodes

October 29, 2014 Spaceflight Now

An Antares rocket explodes at Wallops Island moments after launch sending reporters and photographers at the press site running for cover.

Live video of the docking of a Progress cargo ship with the space station

October 29, 2014 Spaceflight Now

Live coverage from NASA Television for the launch of a Russian Progress cargo ship to the International Space Station. Liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan is scheduled for 0709 GMT (3:09 a.m. EDT).

Gallery: Antares rocket explodes

October 28, 2014 Spaceflight Now

A sequence of images from the NASA TV broadcast of the ill-fated launch of the Antares rocket.

Video: Antares rocket explodes

October 28, 2014 Spaceflight Now

The moment an Orbital Sciences Antares rocket exploded moments after lifting off carrying a Cygnus cargo craft bound for the International space Station.

Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket launches with navigation satellite

October 28, 2014 Spaceflight Now

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1:21 p.m. EDT (1721 GMT) with a satellite to replenish the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System navigation network.

Atlas 5 rocket rolled to Cape Canaveral launch pad

October 28, 2014 Spaceflight Now

An Atlas 5 rocket has been rolled out to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral for blastoff to deploy a replacement satellite to strengthen the Global Positioning System for U.S. military forces and the worldwide economy.

Antares/Orb-3 launch timeline

October 27, 2014 Spaceflight Now

Atlas 5/GPS 2F-8 launch timeline

October 27, 2014 Spaceflight Now