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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket moved to launch pad for Thursday takeoff
Ready to deliver 1.5 million pounds of thrust Thursday morning, an Atlas 5 rocket was rolled from its assembly building to the launch pad today for its national security satellite-deployment flight.
VideoPreview: New satellite for spy agency awaits launch into space Thursday
An Atlas 5 rocket carrying a classified national security satellite was rolled to the launch pad this morning for Thursday's flight to bolster the U.S. intelligence-gathering space architecture.
VideoPhotos: Payload with whimsical logo painted on nose cone lifted atop Atlas
Already shrouded in the Atlas 5 rocket's Extra Extended Payload Fairing (XEPF) aluminum nose cone, the National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-61 satellite was delivered to Cape Canaveral's Vertical Integration Facility on Tuesday, July 19 and lifted aboard the United Launch Alliance vehicle for flight.
NASA books nuclear-certified Atlas 5 rocket for Mars 2020 rover launch
America's next Mars rover, a $2.1 billion nuclear-powered vehicle to search for evidence that life once existed there, will be launched to the Red Planet in the summer of 2020 by a powerful Atlas 5 rocket.
Weather outlook favorable for Thursday’s national security launch by Atlas 5
Good weather for launching a rocket is forecast for Cape Canaveral and the Space Coast on Thursday morning when a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 is scheduled to take flight.
Secret NRO satellite mounted atop Atlas 5 rocket for July 28 launch
Crews hoisted a covert spacecraft atop an Atlas 5 booster rocket this morning for its trek into an equatorial orbit next week.
Mystery payload for spy satellite agency launching aboard next Atlas 5
United Launch Alliance is preparing an Atlas 5 rocket to boost an undercover satellite into orbit for national security later this month.
Video: When Juno launched to begin 5-year trek to Jupiter
Juno left the Earth atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on Aug. 5, 2011, beginning its journey to Jupiter atop the most powerful Atlas variant with five side-mounted boosters. It arrives at the gas giant on Monday.
VideoFriday’s Atlas 5 launch as seen from the air, land and rocket
Perspectives of Friday's United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight were snapped from a commercial airliner, a satellite observer in Australia and the booster itself.
Photos: Atlas 5 launches MUOS 5
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully flies to orbit Friday to deliver the U.S. Navy's fifth Mobile User Objective System communications satellite.