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Atlas 5/Cygnus post-launch press conference

March 23, 2016 Spaceflight Now

Watch the post-launch press conference held at the Kennedy Space Center following the successful launch of an Atlas 5 carrying Orbital ATK’s Cygnus AO-6 cargo craft, which is headed to the International Space Station.

ULA wants you to help pick name of new rocket

March 23, 2015 Stephen Clark

Eagle? Freedom? GalaxyOne? United Launch Alliance wants public input in the naming of a next-generation launcher designed to replace the historic Atlas and Delta rocket lines in the 2020s.

Atlas 5 rocket rolled to Cape Canaveral launch pad

October 28, 2014 Spaceflight Now

An Atlas 5 rocket has been rolled out to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral for blastoff to deploy a replacement satellite to strengthen the Global Positioning System for U.S. military forces and the worldwide economy.

Orion’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket moved to launch pad

October 1, 2014 Spaceflight Now

The booster rocket that will launch NASA’s next-generation Orion space capsule on a two-orbit, four-hour shakedown cruise in December has been rolled to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

Mysterious satellite launched from Florida by Atlas 5 rocket

September 16, 2014 Stephen Clark

Rocketing through gloomy skies with a payload clouded in a veil of secrecy, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fired away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday to deploy a satellite thousands of miles above Earth.

Space surveillance craft launched by Delta 4 rocket

July 28, 2014 Spaceflight Now

A pair of covertly developed inspector satellites to monitor collision threats and nefarious activities in geosynchronous orbit for U.S. Strategic Command blasted off aboard a Delta 4 rocket.

Waterside view of Delta 4 GPS 2F-6 Launch

May 16, 2014 Stephen Clark

Spectacular video of the twilight launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket carrying the GPS 2F-6 navigation satellite on May 16, 2014.