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Timeline: Delta 4/WGS 8 launch events
Follow the Delta 4 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37 launch pad with the U.S. Air Force's WGS 8 communications satellite. Liftoff is scheduled for Wednesday at 6:53 p.m. EST.
Favorable weather forecast for Wednesday’s Delta 4 launch from Florida
Air Force meteorologists are expecting good weather to launch the Delta 4 rocket with a military communications satellite Wednesday evening from Cape Canaveral.
ULA unveils ‘RocketBuilder’ website
Rocket-builder United Launch Alliance unveiled a first-of-a-kind website Wednesday that shows potential customers exactly what it will cost to buy an Atlas 5 booster, along with expected savings based on the rocket's demonstrated reliability, ULA's on-time launch record and the company's sophisticated guidance system.
Atlas 5 rocket to finish year with commercial broadband satellite launch
Preparing for its eighth launch of the year, the Atlas 5 rocket program has begun stacking the vehicle that will deploy a commercial satellite to provide Internet connectivity to rural America.
Photos: America’s 100th EELV blasts off
The 100th flight of America's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program -- a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket -- departed Cape Canaveral on Saturday evening carrying the most advanced U.S. weather satellite ever made.
U.S. military communications satellite moved to pad for Dec. 7 launch into space
The next satellite to launch from Cape Canaveral -- an essential communications satellite for the U.S. military and allied nations -- was moved to the pad and mounted atop its Delta 4 rocket today.
Photos: Atlas 5 launches new weather observer
Launching the high-tech GOES-R satellite to revolutionize U.S. weather forecasting, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thunders away from Cape Canaveral on Saturday at 6:42 p.m. EST (2342 GMT).
VideoAtlas 5 launches the most advanced U.S. weather satellite in history
Revolutionizing the way American meteorologists see the weather, likened to the advancement from black and white television to modern high definition TV, a new observatory was successfully launched Saturday by an Atlas 5 rocket to serve as the linchpin to forecasting what tomorrow will bring.
Video: GOES-R departs Earth atop Atlas 5 rocket
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 197 feet tall and and weighing 1.2 million pounds, unleashes 2.4 million pounds of thrust from its main engine and four solid-fuel boosters at 6:42 p.m. EST (2342 GMT) Saturday to launch the GOES-R weather observer for NASA and NOAA from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Live coverage: Atlas 5 countdown and launch journal
Advancing the future of weather forecasting in the U.S., a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 6:42 p.m. EST (2342 GMT) today to deploy the GOES-R satellite, anext-generation geostationary observatory that promises unprecedented clarity and speed in tracking storms. Follow the ascent in our live journal.