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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.

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News Headlines

  • SpaceX launches Starlink mission from West Coast
    September 1, 2026
  • Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next ‘great observatory,’ launched
    August 29, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg
    August 25, 2026
  • SpaceX launches Starlink mission on a Falcon booster’s record-breaking 37th flight
    August 24, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 100th orbital mission of 2026
    August 21, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral following last-minute scrub
    August 20, 2026
  • LandSpace becomes first commercial Chinese company to land an orbital-class booster
    August 19, 2026
  • Astronauts remove failed antenna; run out of time to install a spare
    August 18, 2026
  • SpaceX exceeds 11,000 satellites in low Earth orbit
    August 18, 2026
  • SpaceX launches record-breaking back-to-back Falcon 9 rockets for Globalstar, U.S. Space Force
    August 15, 2026
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