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Video: Weather causes Atlas 5 countdown hold
For the second day running, bad weather at Cape Canaveral forced the postponement of the NROL-52 satellite launch. Today, the weather officer stopped the countdown with 97 seconds left.
Photos: Atlas 5 rocket rolls out for NROL-52 flight
Riding the rails between its assembly building and the launch pad, an Atlas 5 rocket topped with a clandestine national security satellite was rolled out this morning for Thursday's liftoff at 4:07 a.m. EDT (0807 GMT).
VideoLive coverage: Atlas 5 countdown and launch journal
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral at 3:28 a.m. EDT (0728 GMT) today to place a classified surveillance satellite into space for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. Follow the ascent in our live journal.
Preview: Atlas 5 to execute another space-lift mission for U.S. spy satellite agency
An early bird rocket launch from the Florida spaceport will take to the skies before dawn Thursday when an Atlas 5 lofts a classified U.S. government satellite.
Photos: NROL-52 payload mounted atop Atlas 5 booster
his photo gallery shows the classified National Reconnaissance Office payload, already encapsulated in the 14-foot-diameter nose cone, being lifted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur rocket at Cape Canaveral's Vertical Integration Facility.
Fact sheet: Atlas 5 rocket to launch the NROL-52 mission from Cape Canaveral
This is our comprehensive fact sheet previewing the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket deployment of the classified NROL-52 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.
NRO payload paired with Atlas 5 rocket for another national security launch
A payload critical to the nation was mounted atop its Atlas 5 rocket this morning in preparation for next week's launch into orbit.
Photos: News media images of Atlas 5 launch
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket leaves Space Launch Complex 3-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on the NROL-42 satellite-deployment mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Photos: Atlas 5 powers NRO payload into the night
The Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for its late-night ascent to deploy the NROL-42 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Signals intelligence gatherer successfully launched by powerful Atlas 5 rocket
A signals intercepter for the U.S. spy satellite agency was successfully launched into a high orbit over the top of the world by an Atlas 5 rocket on Saturday night.