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Preview: Atlas 5 rocket to launch NASA magnetic field study

March 8, 2015 Justin Ray

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

March 6, 2015 Justin Ray

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.

Atlas 5 launch pad being prepared for astronaut crews

January 28, 2015 Stephen Clark

Work on Boeing’s CST-100 commercial crew capsule will ramp up at the program’s new home base in Florida this year, with construction of a crew access tower at the Atlas 5 rocket’s launch pad underway and assembly of a spacecraft test article due to begin in a converted space shuttle hangar.

Readers share their views of Tuesday’s Atlas 5 launch

January 21, 2015 Stephen Clark

A powerful Atlas 5 rocket fitted with a kerosene-burning main engine and five solid-fueled boosters lit up Florida’s Space Coast with Tuesday night’s blastoff carrying a U.S. Navy communications satellite into orbit. We present a sample of launch photos submitted by Spaceflight Now’s readers.

Live coverage: Atlas 5 blasts off with Navy satellite

January 19, 2015 Justin Ray

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fitted with five powerful solid-fueled boosters has lifted off from a seaside launch complex at Cape Canaveral with the U.S. Navy’s third Mobile User Objective System communications satellite.

Preview: Navy craft to ride milestone Atlas-Centaur launching

January 17, 2015 Justin Ray

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.

24 launches scheduled at Cape Canaveral this year

January 14, 2015 Stephen Clark

Up to 24 launches are planned from Cape Canaveral in 2015, thanks to jam-packed manifests for SpaceX and United Launch Alliance to send up satellites for the U.S. military, NASA and commercial telecom operators.

2014’s launch tally highest in two decades

January 4, 2015 Stephen Clark

There were more successful space launches in 2014 than in any year since 1992, with Russia, the United States and China responsible for more than 80 percent of global launch activity.

Photos: Navy satellite shrouded for launch

December 23, 2014 Justin Ray

The sophisticated U.S. Navy mobile communications satellite to launch Jan. 20 has been wrapped up in the Atlas 5 rocket’s nose cone for the holidays

13 launches on manifest for ULA in 2015

December 19, 2014 Justin Ray

Navigation satellites, communications spacecraft, classified missions, NASA science projects and the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo ship destined for the International Space Station are on the United Launch Alliance manifest for the new year.