Photos: 200th Atlas-Centaur launches MUOS 3

The 200th Atlas-Centaur rocket, history some 52 years in the making, will blast off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral to deliver a U.S. Navy mobile communications satellite into orbit.

A final batch of launch photos from the successful AV-052 mission of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying the U.S. Navy’s MUOS 3 communications satellite.

A look at the Atlas 5 launch of the Navy’s MUOS 3 satellite by the numbers.