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Photos: Atlas 5/MMS launch gallery
A photo gallery shows Thursday night's successful Atlas 5 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral.
Atlas 5 rocket cleared for rollout to launch pad
Mission leaders Tuesday gave approval for rollout of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on Wednesday morning, leading to liftoff Thursday night of the Magnetospheric Multiscale science project for NASA.
Preview: Atlas 5 rocket to launch NASA magnetic field study
A $1.1 billion science investigation involving four formation-flying satellites circling the Earth will share a single Atlas 5 rocket launch Thursday night from Cape Canaveral to probe explosions in the magnetic field with millisecond speed.
Flight Readiness Review passed for next week’s Atlas 5 launch
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and NASA's four MMS satellite probes passed their Flight Readiness Review on Friday that assessed the progress of work and affirmed plans to launch next Thursday night.
VideoLive coverage: Atlas 5 blasts off with Navy satellite
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fitted with five powerful solid-fueled boosters has lifted off from a seaside launch complex at Cape Canaveral with the U.S. Navy's third Mobile User Objective System communications satellite.
Preview: Navy craft to ride milestone Atlas-Centaur launching
The 200th Atlas-Centaur rocket, history some 52 years in the making, will blast off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral to deliver a U.S. Navy mobile communications satellite into orbit.
Photos: Navy satellite shrouded for launch
The sophisticated U.S. Navy mobile communications satellite to launch Jan. 20 has been wrapped up in the Atlas 5 rocket's nose cone for the holidays
13 launches on manifest for ULA in 2015
Navigation satellites, communications spacecraft, classified missions, NASA science projects and the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo ship destined for the International Space Station are on the United Launch Alliance manifest for the new year.
VideoULA year in review
A record number of Atlas 5 launches, the return of Delta 2 and a Delta 4-Heavy at the dawn of a new space exploration era highlighted 2014 for United Launch Alliance.
Photos: Atlas launch seen from pad cameras
Views of the Dec. 12 launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from up-close remote cameras placed near the booster's launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.