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Stats: Delta 4 history and manifest
Here's a look by the numbers of the previous Delta 4 flight history and the remaining flights of the rocket named Delta.
Snapshots from Atlas 5 launch
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.
VideoRecap story: Atlas 5 rocket launches NASA satellite quartet
Four magnetic explosion probes in a towering stack atop an Atlas 5 rocket rode a fountain of flame off the launch pad and into Earth orbit Thursday night for a $1.1 billion NASA science investigation into a universal force of nature.
Live coverage: Atlas 5 blasts off with four NASA satellites
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off Thursday night at 10:44 p.m. EDT (0244 GMT) with NASA's four formation-flying MMS satellites.
Photos: Atlas 5 rollout
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was rolled out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 on Wednesday morning, emerging from the Vertical Integration Facility assembly hangar where the two-stage rocket was put together.
Atlas 5 rolled to the pad for Thursday night’s liftoff
Riding the rails to the launch pad Wednesday morning, the Atlas 5 rocket was rolled out to Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 for liftoff Thursday night to deploy four NASA satellites that will probe Earth's magnetosphere for a high-priority research project.
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.
Atlas/MMS launch timeline
This is the ascent timeline to be followed by the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in launching NASA's MMS mission on March 12 at 10:44 p.m. EDT.
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.