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Weather outlook favorable for Thursday’s national security launch by Atlas 5
Good weather for launching a rocket is forecast for Cape Canaveral and the Space Coast on Thursday morning when a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 is scheduled to take flight.
Secret NRO satellite mounted atop Atlas 5 rocket for July 28 launch
Crews hoisted a covert spacecraft atop an Atlas 5 booster rocket this morning for its trek into an equatorial orbit next week.
Mystery payload for spy satellite agency launching aboard next Atlas 5
United Launch Alliance is preparing an Atlas 5 rocket to boost an undercover satellite into orbit for national security later this month.
Video: When Juno launched to begin 5-year trek to Jupiter
Juno left the Earth atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on Aug. 5, 2011, beginning its journey to Jupiter atop the most powerful Atlas variant with five side-mounted boosters. It arrives at the gas giant on Monday.
VideoFriday’s Atlas 5 launch as seen from the air, land and rocket
Perspectives of Friday's United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight were snapped from a commercial airliner, a satellite observer in Australia and the booster itself.
Photos: Atlas 5 launches MUOS 5
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully flies to orbit Friday to deliver the U.S. Navy's fifth Mobile User Objective System communications satellite.
Photos: Atlas 5 fulfills MUOS launch series with fifth successful launch
Launching the U.S. Navy's fifth MUOS mobile communications satellite, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thundered away from Cape Canaveral today.
Photos: Most powerful Atlas 5 puts 15,000-pound satellite in orbit
With five side-mounted solid rocket boosters for added power, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully deployed the U.S. Navy's fifth MUOS mobile communications satellite.
Navy satellite sails to orbit atop Atlas 5 rocket for communications grid
The constellation-building Atlas 5 rocket from United Launch Alliance successfully deployed the fifth communications spacecraft for the Navy's Mobile User Objective System today to form a new rugged smartphone network for the U.S. military.
Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 and MUOS 5 for the Navy and rest of U.S. military
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 206 feet tall and and weighing 1.3 million pounds, unleashes two-and-a-half million pounds of thrust from its main engine and five solid-fuel boosters to launch the Navy's MUOS 5 satellite from Cape Canaveral.