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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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A veteran Russian commander, Italian flight engineer and a rookie NASA astronaut lifted off at 1628 GMT (12:28 p.m. EDT) Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, kicking off a six-hour flight to the International Space Station. The crew docked with the station at 2248 GMT (6:48 p.m. EDT).

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Preview the deployment of the advanced GOES-R weather satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in the pre-launch news conference held at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, Nov. 17.

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January 20, 2020 William Harwood

It took NASA more than 50 years to stage its first all-female spacewalk last October. It took three months before the second on Jan. 15 and just five days more for the third on Monday, a successful six-hour 58-minute excursion to finish installing a set of new solar array batteries aboard the International Space Station.

News Headlines

  • Super Heavy-Starship rocket chalks up mostly successful test flight
    July 25, 2026
  • Critical NASA Deep Space ground station in Spain evacuated due to wildfires
    July 24, 2026
  • Launch preview: SpaceX ready for 2nd attempt to launch Starship Flight 13 following post-abort engine work
    July 23, 2026
  • SpaceX launches novel geosynchronous robotic servicing satellite on decade-long mission
    July 21, 2026
  • Post-ignition anomaly causes abort of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13
    July 16, 2026
  • Semiconductor manufacturing test bed flies alongside Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch
    July 4, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
    July 1, 2026
  • Astronauts ‘operate’ on space station’s broken robot arm
    June 30, 2026
  • Blue Origin outlines return to flight logistics for its New Glenn rockets
    June 30, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 7.5-ton SiriusXM satellite as part of constellation refresh
    June 28, 2026
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