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Video: When Juno launched to begin 5-year trek to Jupiter

July 3, 2016 Justin Ray

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.

Friday’s Atlas 5 launch as seen from the air, land and rocket

June 27, 2016 Justin Ray

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

June 25, 2016 Justin Ray

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.

Photos: Atlas 5 fulfills MUOS launch series with fifth successful launch

June 24, 2016 Justin Ray

Launching the U.S. Navy’s fifth MUOS mobile communications satellite, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thundered away from Cape Canaveral today.

Photos: Most powerful Atlas 5 puts 15,000-pound satellite in orbit

June 24, 2016 Justin Ray

With five side-mounted solid rocket boosters for added power, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully deployed the U.S. Navy’s fifth MUOS mobile communications satellite.

Navy satellite sails to orbit atop Atlas 5 rocket for communications grid

June 24, 2016 Justin Ray

The constellation-building Atlas 5 rocket from United Launch Alliance successfully deployed the fifth communications spacecraft for the Navy’s Mobile User Objective System today to form a new rugged smartphone network for the U.S. military.

Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 and MUOS 5 for the Navy and rest of U.S. military

June 24, 2016 Justin Ray

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 206 feet tall and and weighing 1.3 million pounds, unleashes two-and-a-half million pounds of thrust from its main engine and five solid-fuel boosters to launch the Navy’s MUOS 5 satellite from Cape Canaveral.

Photos: More shots of Saturday’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket Launch

June 12, 2016 Justin Ray

Departing on three pillars of fire, the United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifted off at 1:51 p.m. from Cape Canaveral for a classified national security satellite deployment.

Photos: Spectacular start to Delta 4-Heavy’s satellite deployment mission

June 12, 2016 Justin Ray

The United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket fired away from Cape Canaveral at 1:51 p.m. EDT today to deploy a covert surveillance satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

Recap story: Triple-barrel Delta 4-Heavy launches national security satellite

June 11, 2016 Justin Ray

Two million pounds of firepower successfully launched a behemoth Delta 4-Heavy rocket and a top-secret eavesdropping surveillance satellite into space Saturday, embarking on a taxing climb directly into geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth to deploy one of the pinnacles of U.S. intelligence-gathering.