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Delta 4-Heavy selected for launch of solar probe
A NASA spacecraft that will fly closer to the sun than any mission before will launch on a Delta 4-Heavy rocket in 2018, requiring a boost from the largest active launcher in the U.S. inventory and repeated flybys around Venus to reach an operating post inside the solar atmosphere.
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.
Photos: Next GPS satellite readied for launch
The U.S. Air Force's ninth Global Positioning System (GPS) 2F satellite, GPS 2F-9, is encapsulated in the Delta 4 rocket's four-meter-diameter nose cone at a processing facility and then moved to the launch pad at Complex 37 for mating to its booster inside the mobile service tower.
More views of Thursday night’s Atlas 5 launch
Spaceflight Now's readers sent in photos from Thursday night's launch of four NASA satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, marking a fiery start to a mission probing the fundamental workings of the magnetic bubble shielding Earth from cosmic radiation.
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.
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.