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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.
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.
Photos: Shroud installed around satellite quartet, connected to Atlas 5
NASA's four Magnetospheric Multiscale mission spacecraft were encapsulated Feb. 23 in the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket's nose cone at the commercial Astrotech processing campus in Titusville. Delivery of the payload to the Atlas 5 assembly building for mating occurred on Friday, Feb. 27.
Four satellites mated to Atlas 5 rocket
Four NASA satellites that will create a constellation of formation-flying spacecraft were placed aboard their shared United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket Friday.
VideoSMAP observatory unfurls large science antenna structure
Deploying its marquee element in space Tuesday, NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive spacecraft took a major step towards realizing its science potential.
VideoVideo: Groundbreaking for commercial crew access tower
There was a groundbreaking Friday at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 to start building the astronaut access tower to board Boeing's CST-100 capsules atop United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets.