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Photos: NASA’s InSight lander buttoned up for trip to Mars
Now cocooned inside a heat shield and the nose shroud of an Atlas 5 rocket that will send it to Mars, NASA's InSight lander is awaiting launch May 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
InSight Mars lander joined with Atlas 5 launcher at Vandenberg Air Force Base
Ground crews at Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's Central Coast hoisted NASA's InSight Mars lander atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket Monday, kicking off nearly two weeks of integrated tests and checkouts before the probe's interplanetary launch window opens May 5.
Atlas 5/InSight launch windows
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA's InSight lander toward Mars will have a roughly two-hour predawn launch window each day from May 5 through June 8 to boost the science probe into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
NASA’s InSight lander inside one month to launch toward Mars
NASA's InSight Mars lander will be buttoned up for launch in the coming weeks at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, in preparation for its hoisting atop an Atlas 5 rocket for blastoff in the predawn hours of May 5.
Atlas 5 rocket assembled for first Mars mission launch from Vandenberg
Ground crews at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California raised a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on its launch pad earlier this month in preparation for liftoff May 5 with NASA's InSight lander heading to Mars.
New NOAA weather satellite reaches geostationary orbit
Less than two weeks after its launch from Cape Canaveral, a new NOAA weather observatory has boosted itself into a circular orbit more than 22,000 miles over the equator, and officials have renamed it GOES-17 ahead of a test series before it enters service later this year.
Photos: Atlas 5 blasts off with GOES-S weather satellite
NOAA's newest weather satellite, heading for a perch with coverage over the western United States and the Pacific Ocean, launched March 1 from Cape Canaveral on top of an Atlas 5 rocket.
InSight lander flown to California for final launch preps
NASA’s robotic InSight Mars lander arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California this week aboard a U.S. Air Force cargo plane, ready for final testing, fueling and launch aboard an Atlas 5 rocket May 5, two years later the originally planned.
Weather satellite for the West Coast launched from Cape Canaveral
A weather satellite set to bring new storm tracking capabilities to the western United States and the Pacific Ocean rode into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket Thursday.
Video: Replay of Atlas 5’s launch with GOES-S weather satellite
NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite, the latest in a series of meteorological observatories dating back to 1975, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.