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Tropical weather threatens Monday’s scheduled Atlas 5 launch
The forecast track of Erika. Credit: National Hurricane Center CAPE CANAVERAL — Plans to launch a Navy communications satellite aboard an Atlas 5 rocket early Monday could be interrupted by Tropical...
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Preview: Launch to complete Navy satellite fleet’s reach
A prior Atlas 5-551 rocket rolls out. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Likened to raising a cellular tower 22,300 miles high, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will put the Navy’s fourth mobile...
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Tropical weather postpones Monday’s Atlas 5 rocket launch
The Atlas 5 rocket will remain inside assembly building for now. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Plans to launch a Navy communications satellite aboard an Atlas 5 rocket early Monday have been interrupted...
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Atlas/MUOS 4 launch timeline
This is the ascent timeline to be followed by the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in launching the Mobile User Objective System satellite No. 4 on Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 5:59 a.m. EDT. T+0:00:01.1...
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Atlas 5 rocket travels to launch pad for Wednesday flight
CAPE CANAVERAL — Delivering two-and-a-half million pounds of ground-shaking thrust at takeoff, more than any rocket flying from Cape Canaveral these days, the mighty vehicle was rolled from its...
View ArticleLive coverage: Atlas 5 countdown and launch journal
(Launch webcast begins at 5:39 a.m. EDT) Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying the Navy’s Mobile User Objective System communications satellite No....
View ArticleVideo: Liftoff of Atlas 5 rocket to deploy Navy’s MUOS 4 satellite
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Navy’s Mobile User Objective System communications satellite No. 4 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: United Launch Alliance See...
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Photos: Predawn launch of Atlas 5
A collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the Navy’s Mobile User Objective System communications satellite No. 4. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance...
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Recap story: Atlas 5 completes heavy-duty launch assignment
Photo: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — In a breath-taking display at daybreak today, an Atlas rocket powered an enormous U.S. Navy satellite into space to close the last remaining gap and give global reach to the...
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Photos: More Atlas 5 launch shots
Another batch of Atlas 5 rocket launch photos from Wednesday’s flight for the U.S. Navy carrying the Mobile User Objective System spacecraft. Photo credit: Pat Corkery/Lockheed Martin Space Systems See...
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MUOS 5 satellite comes to Florida on way to geosynchronous orbit
MUOS No. 5 in the factory before shipment to Cape Canaveral for launch. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — The fifth and final satellite for the U.S. Navy’s new mobile network to provide rugged...
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket positioned on launch pad for Navy satellite deployment
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was rolled to the pad today at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 in preparation for Friday’s liftoff. The flight will deliver the Mobile User Objective System...
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Photos: Atlas 5 on the pad at sunset
The night before its planned flight coupled the photogenic United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and a gorgeous sunset at Cape Canaveral. Photos by United Launch Alliance See earlier MUOS 5 coverage....
View ArticleVideo: Liftoff of Atlas 5 and MUOS 5 for the Navy and rest of U.S. military
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...
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Navy satellite sails to orbit atop Atlas 5 rocket for communications grid
CAPE CANAVERAL — And then there were five. The constellation-building Atlas 5 rocket from United Launch Alliance successfully deployed the fifth communications spacecraft for the Navy’s Mobile User...
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Photos: Most powerful Atlas 5 puts 15,000-pound satellite in orbit
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. Photos by United...
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Photos: Atlas 5 fulfills MUOS launch series with fifth successful launch
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 by Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now See...
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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. Photos by Patrick Corkery / Lockheed...
View ArticleFriday’s Atlas 5 launch as seen from the air, land and rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL — 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. I flew by a...
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Navy’s new MUOS 5 communications satellite experiences snag in space
MUOS 5 in the factory. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — Trouble has befallen the U.S. Navy’s new communications satellite that was launched from Cape Canaveral two weeks ago, suspending orbit...
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