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VideoOTD…Aug. 7 and STS-85
#OTD in 1997...Discovery launched to deploy and later retrieve the CRISTA-SPAS atmospheric research satellite
Atlas 5 rocket awarded commercial launch for EchoStar
A powerhouse Internet-from-space communications satellite will be launched from the Cape next year atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, officials announced Wednesday.
VideoOTD…Aug. 2 and STS-43
#OTD in 1991...Atlantis launched another of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites
Atlas 5 team begins stacking most powerful variant for Navy launch
Continuing a run of military satellite deployments this summer, United Launch Alliance has begun stacking the Atlas 5 rocket that will boost the Navy's next mobile communications craft.
VideoOTD…July 29 and STS-51F
#OTD in 1985...Challenger suffered an engine shutdown on her way to orbit for a Spacelab mission
VideoOTD…July 26 and STS-114
#OTD in 2005...Discovery launched on the first space shuttle mission after the Columbia tragedy
VideoVideo: Delta 4 launch highlights
This is the launch highlights reel from United Launch Alliance of the Delta 4 rocket carrying the seventh satellite for the Air Force's Wideband Global SATCOM constellation.
Photos: Delta 4 rocket fires off the pad before sunset
View photos of Thursday's spectacular sunset launch from Cape Canaveral of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket with the U.S. Air Force's seventh Wideband Global SATCOM communications platform.
VideoSeventh satellite in Air Force’s WGS series launched
A U.S. military satellite that will fortify the "anytime, anywhere" communications infrastructure used by soldiers, ships, aircraft and drones was launched into orbit Thursday to improve the global connectivity that encompasses the planet.