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VideoRecap story: Last GPS satellite of its generation arrives in space
The main engine rumbling to life. Ice shards breaking free. The rocket lumbering off the pad. The battle against gravity being won once again. That was the scene as the Atlas 5 took flight to cap a generation of Global Positioning System satellites.
VideoVideos: Atlas 5 caps a generation of GPS launches
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Global Positioning System 2F-12 satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, completing 27 years and 61 flights of the GPS 2 generation.
VideoUnited Launch Alliance’s high-tempo year begins with GPS launch Friday
Kicking off United Launch Alliance's ambitious 2016 with as many as 15 launches planned for the U.S. military, intelligence community, NASA and commercial clients, an Atlas 5 rocket will thunder to orbit Friday to deploy the last satellite in the current generation of GPS navigation spacecraft.
VideoDragon crew capsule’s propulsive landing system tested
SpaceX released a video Thursday showing a propulsive hover test of a prototype of the company's Dragon crew capsule conducted two months ago, a milestone in the development of the spaceship's rocket packs that will eventually guide the craft to helicopter-like landings.
VideoWatch a replay of Soyuz crew’s blastoff from Kazakhstan
Three crewmen from Russia, the United States and Great Britain blasted off toward the International Space Station on Tuesday, rocketing into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in pursuit of the orbiting research lab.
VideoPhotos: Crew transport rolled out at Baikonur
Tugged along a historic route leading to the launch pad where Yuri Gagarin took off 1961 to become the first person in space, a Soyuz rocket rolled out of its assembly hangar in Kazakhstan and stood up on its launch mount Sunday.
VideoReadiness confirmed for Thursday’s Atlas 5 cargo launch to space station
Mission managers Tuesday granted approval to proceed with Wednesday's rollout of the Atlas 5 rocket and Thursday's launch to deliver the commercial Cygnus cargo ship into orbit to resupply the International Space Station.
VideoVideo released from Atlas 5 rocket launch of cubesat flock
Remarkable rocketcam video footage of the Oct. 8 flight a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from California has been released to show its hitchhiker cubesat payloads shooting into orbit.
VideoGiant antenna deploys successfully aboard Morelos 3
Mexico's advanced mobile communications satellite launched last month for humanitarian and national security uses has successfully blossomed in space.
VideoRecap story: 100 successes and counting for United Launch Alliance
The 100th flight by United Launch Alliance took off Friday for deployment of a sophisticated geomobile communications satellite to bridge the digital divide in Mexico while extending the rocket company's unparalleled record of success in launching $80 billion in space assets.