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AV-024: Atlas 5-431 launches Intelsat 14 |
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Atlas 5 launches Intelsat communications satellite
An international telecommunications satellite that will bridge the Atlantic with a broad reach to four continents was successfully hauled into orbit November 23 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket that completed its last purely commercial launch for the foreseeable future.
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AV-017: Atlas 5-401 launches DMSP F18 |
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U.S. military's new weather satellite gets foggy sendoff
An Atlas 5 rocket escaped the heavy blanket of fog smothering its launch pad Sunday morning and successfully powered to space to deploy a new global weather observatory for America's military.
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AV-018: Atlas 5-401 launches PAN |
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Atlas rocket successfully launches its secret payload
A mysterious spacecraft whose mission is cloaked in secrecy left Cape Canaveral atop the hard-to-miss roar of its Atlas 5 rocket and then revealed a major clue about itself while cruising above a satellite-tracking hobbyist a short time later.
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AV-020: Atlas 5-401 launches LRO/LCROSS |
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Rocket launch puts NASA on journey back to the Moon
A robotic scout to reconnoiter the Moon like never before and a sleuth that will dig into a tantalizing mystery at the lunar south pole blasted off June 18 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
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 LRO: 21st century orbiter to map the Moon
When the next generation of lunar astronauts step foot on the Moon in the years ahead, the definitive travel guide compiled by an instrument-laden spacecraft launching this week will detail the best and worst places to go and the risks the crews could face.
 LCROSS: A smashing way to answer watery question
Are polar craters on the Moon, eternally dark places where sunlight hasn't been seen for billions of years, harboring natural reservoirs of water ice that could be farmed by future colonists? That's a question that NASA's audacious lunar impactor experiment plans to answer.
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Moon-bound launch: Rocket cameras show the way
Hitch a ride aboard the Atlas 5 rocket destined for the Moon with this dazzling footage provided by video cameras facing forward and aft. See the liftoff and ascent through the clouds, the first stage separate, the Centaur ignite and the payload shroud jettison.
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AV-016: Atlas 5-421 launches WGS 2 |
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Atlas 5 rocket successfully launches military satellite
It was a perfect Friday night flight for the Atlas 5 rocket, completing a military mission that put an advanced communications spacecraft into the sky to serve U.S. forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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AV-014: Atlas 5-421 launches ICO G1 |
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Atlas 5 rocket puts up mobile services satellite
Thundering out of Cape Canaveral on its first commercial flight in two years and carrying its heaviest payload ever, an Atlas 5 rocket on April 14 successfully launched a mobile communications satellite to assist and entertain Americans on the go.
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AV-006: Atlas 5-411 launches NROL-28 |
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Atlas 5 rocket launches from California for first time
America's Atlas 5 rocket made its much-anticipated maiden mission from the West Coast on March 13, piercing ground-hugging clouds and fog that blanketed the launch pad to send a secretive spy satellite into orbit.
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AV-015: Atlas 5-401 launches NROL-24 |
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Atlas 5 lofts clandestine communications satellite
Its thunderous departure out of Cape Canaveral on Monday afternoon was hard to miss, but the hush-hush ascent of the Atlas 5 rocket was wrapped in an unusual cloak of secrecy as the booster propelled high above Earth a classified spacecraft designed to communicate with spy satellites.
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AV-011: Atlas 5-421 launches WGS SV1 |
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Military communications take 'quantum leap'
An advanced communications satellite with as much capacity as the entire orbiting fleet of craft that it will help replace was successfully shot into orbit Wednesday night atop a 19-story Atlas 5 rocket.
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We present four picturesque panoramas taken at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 on Wednesday afternoon, just a few hours before the Atlas 5 rocket was fueled and successfully launched to place a military communications satellite into orbit.
PANORAMA 1 | PANORAMA 2 | PANORAMA 3 | PANORAMA 4
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AV-009: Atlas 5-401 launches NROL-30 |
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Atlas 5 rocket experiences problem during launch
The Atlas rocket program's spotless success record over the past 80 flights in 14 years was hit with a blemish June 15 while launching a classified U.S. national security satellite payload.
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AV-013: Atlas 5-401 launches STP 1 |
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Cluster of military payloads launches on Atlas 5 rocket
The Atlas 5 rocket's first flight for the U.S. Air Force launched Thursday night from Florida, on an unusually complex mission to deploy a flock of military research satellites into two different orbits. Read about the rocket's climb to orbit in our status center.
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AV-008: Atlas 5-411 launches ASTRA 1KR |
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Atlas 5 rocket launches TV broadcast craft for Europe
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket kept its appointment to launch a television broadcast satellite that will serve million of homes across Europe, successfully roaring off a Florida launch pad April 20 on the exact minute scheduled months in advance.
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AV-010: Atlas 5-551 launches New Horizons |
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Probe sets sail on voyage to the outer solar system
A supercharged Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons probe roared to life and vaulted away from Earth January 19 on a three-billion-mile, nine-year voyage to the frigid edge of the solar system.
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Pluto-bound probe rolls out to the pad on eve of launch
A grand adventure to explore the outer frontier of the solar system was moved to the launch pad Monday morning for the final day of preparations leading to blastoff.
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AV-007: Atlas 5-401 launches Mars Orbiter |
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Sharp-eyed orbiter dispatched to Mars
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket boosted NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter into space August 12, kicking off a $720 million mission to sniff out underground ice deposits, to map the red planet's geology with unprecedented clarity and to monitor its tenuous, dusty atmosphere in an ongoing scientific assault.
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Pre-launch photo gallery
This is a gallery of Lockheed Martin photos showing the Atlas 5 rocket's nighttime from the Vertical Integration Facility assembly building to the Complex 41 launch pad Wednesday night and daytime views of the vehicle during Thursday's post-scrub countdown recycle.
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Mars launch photo gallery
The first interplanetary Atlas 5 rocket was launched Friday from Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 to propel NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on its seven-month voyage to the Red Planet. This is a gallery of photos showing the Lockheed Martin-built rocket's beautiful morning liftoff.
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AV-004: Atlas 5-431 launches Inmarsat 4-F1 |
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Atlas rocket family extends launch success record
Riding the most powerful Atlas rocket in history, the world's heaviest commercial communications satellite is circling the Earth following Friday's fast and fiery blastoff from Cape Canaveral.
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Photo gallery: rocket rollout
Riding atop a mobile launching platform, the Atlas 5 rocket is rolled from its assembly building to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 just hours before its planned liftoff time carrying the Inmarsat 4-F1 communications satellite payload. Although the launch attempt was later scrubbed, the rocket remained on the pad during the 24-hour postponement.
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Photo gallery: Atlas 5 rocket launch for Inmarsat
This collection of photographs taken from a variety of locales captures the successful launch of Lockheed Martin's fifth Atlas 5 rocket. The mission from Cape Canaveral placed the Inmarsat 4-F1 mobile communications satellite into Earth orbit.
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AC-206: Atlas 3B launches NRO craft |
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Last Atlas 3 rocket launches a pair of spy satellites
While its liftoff was hidden by a dense blanket of fog draped over Cape Canaveral's Complex 36 Thursday morning, the last Lockheed Martin Atlas 3 rocket flew into the history books in fine style as it successfully launched two formation-flying spy satellites probably meant to track enemy ships at sea.
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Atlas rocket workers say goodbye to Complex 36
After heart-felt speeches and toasts to say goodbye to the launch site that Atlas-Centaur rockets have called their Cape Canaveral home since the 1960s, the spotlights shining on Complex 36 were turned off in a ceremony following's Thursday's liftoff.
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Photo gallery: Final launch for Atlas 3 rocket
This collection of pictures from last week's successful Lockheed Martin Atlas 3 rocket launch covers retraction of the mobile service tower, the foggy blastoff from Cape Canaveral and the post-liftoff ceremony inside the Complex 36 blockhouse.
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AV-005: Atlas 5-521 launches AMC-16 |
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Atlas 5 rocket completes another successful launch
Call it the ultimate whirlwind experience in the rocket business. In the span of 12 hours, Lockheed Martin's Atlas 5 rocket went to the launch pad, took on its fuel, persevered through a couple of technical bugs, roared off the planet on 31 million horsepower and was rewarded with another success as it deployed a commercial satellite cargo into orbit.
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AV-005: THURSDAY EVENING'S ROLLOUT
AV-001: INAUGURAL ROCKET ROLLS TO PAD
AV-001: DEBUT LAUNCH IN AUG. 2002
AV-002: ROLLOUT OF SECOND ROCKET
AV-002: LAUNCH OF GREEK SPACECRAFT
AV-003: THIRD ROLLOUT UNVEILS 500-SERIES
AV-003: RAINBOW 1 TV SATELLITE LAUNCHED
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AC-167: Atlas 2AS launches NRO craft |
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Atlas 2 rocket retires with remarkable record
Lockheed Martin's Atlas 2 family of boosters rocketed into retirement August 31, placing a classified U.S. national security satellite into space following a sunset sendoff from Cape Canaveral.
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Launch team salutes Cape's pad 36A after final liftoff
It was the starting point for dozens of commercial communications satellites, military spacecraft and pioneering space probes, including the first man-made object to journey outside our solar system. But after 42 years of Atlas rocket launches, pad 36A saw its final blastoff August 31.
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AC-166: Atlas 2AS launches AMC-11 |
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Next-to-last Atlas 2AS rocket lofts TV satellite
With its retirement looming on the horizon, Lockheed Martin's Atlas 2AS rocket kept its flawless success record alive and well May 19 with the launch of a broadcasting satellite that will aid the expansion of high-definition TV programming across the United States.
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Photo gallery: Mobile Service Tower rollback
This collection of images shows the retraction of launch pad 36B's mobile service tower from around the Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket during Wednesday's countdown.
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Photo gallery: Launch of Atlas 2AS rocket
Wednesday's spectacular late afternoon liftoff of Lockheed Martin's next-to-last Atlas 2AS rocket from Cape Canaveral is captured in this gallery of photos.
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AC-163: Atlas 2AS launches Superbird 6 |
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Japanese Superbird soars to space atop Atlas launcher
Blessed with perfect weather for a space shot and a smooth-as-silk countdown, a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket blasted off April 15 to deliver a Japanese communications satellite into a record-setting high orbit designed to economize the payload's precious fuel supply.
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AC-202: Atlas 3A launches MBSAT |
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Mobile communications satellite launched for Asia
Lockheed Martin's Atlas 3 rocket put on a late-night sky show Saturday, ripping a fiery trail to space to deploy the Mobile Broadcasting Satellite that will transmit video, music and news to the palm of your hand.
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AC-165: Atlas 2AS launches AMC-10 |
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American TV watchers to reap benefits of launch
Starting this spring when U.S. cable television viewers flip on the Discovery Channel, MTV, Nickelodeon or Showtime, they will be watching the channels via a broadcasting satellite successfully launched into space February 5 from Cape Canaveral.
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AC-203: Atlas 3B launches UHF F11 |
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Atlas rocket launches on Centennial of Flight
A century after man made the first powered flight -- the Wright brothers' historic achievement that set in motion the realization of aviation and spaceflight dreams -- an American rocket with a Russian-made engine soared successfully December 17 to put a communications satellite high above Earth.
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VIDEO: ANIMATION OF UHF F11 SATELLITE IN SPACE QT
VIDEO: LOOK BACK AT PAST ATLAS LAUNCHES OF UHF CRAFT QT
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AC-164: Atlas 2AS launches NRO craft |
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Atlas rocket successfully soars on secret mission
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket carried out a clandestine mission in the predawn darkness December 2, deploying into space what is believed to be a package of ocean surveillance satellites to aid the U.S. government track suspicious ships in the global fight against terrorism.
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Observers track secret satellites launched Tuesday
Serving as space-age sleuths tracking spy satellites high above Earth, a band of sky-watchers scattered around the globe are offering their insights into a clandestine cargo launched Tuesday atop an Atlas rocket from California.
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Photo gallery: Atlas launch revisited
This new collection of images shows the December 2 blastoff of the Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket carrying a classified cargo from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The gallery follows the first minutes of flight as seen from still and video cameras.
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AV-003: Atlas 5-521 launches Rainbow 1 |
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Enhanced version of Atlas 5 rocket debuts successfully
The largest and most powerful Atlas rocket in history rushed off its Cape Canaveral pad on a river of golden flame July 17 to expand Lockheed Martin's launcher family.
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Movies from Atlas 5 tour
Lockheed Martin hosted an extraordinary tour for media representatives in mid-July, giving the reporters an upclose look at the fully assembled Atlas 5 rocket inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41. The rocket's new nose cone and solid rocket boosters were of particular interest since they will be flying for the first time on this launch.
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AV-002: Atlas 5-401 launches Hellas Sat |
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First Greek satellite launch performed by Atlas 5 rocket
The May 13 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral wasn't your every day satellite delivery mission. Sure, it had that unmistakable crackling roar and golden tail of fire. But the successful second flight of Lockheed Martin's Atlas 5 rocket began with a history-making accomplishment and ended with Greece achieving its first presence in space.
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VIDEO: VAPOR CLOUD APPEARS IN THE SKY BEHIND ROCKET QT
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AC-205: Atlas 3B launches AsiaSat 4 |
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Atlas 3 rocket gives Asian satellite ride to orbit
An Asian telecommunications spacecraft that will cover over 40 countries from the Middle East to New Zealand was successfully launched April 11 by a Lockheed Martin Atlas 3B rocket from Cape Canaveral.
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AC-144: Atlas 2A launches TDRS-J |
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NASA communications relay craft rides Atlas into space
Blasted into orbit December 4 by Lockheed Martin's final Atlas 2A booster, an advanced replacement satellite is en route to join NASA's flotilla of communications spacecraft designed to relay Hubble's dazzling views of the cosmos, link astronauts and mission control and track launching rockets.
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AC-159: Atlas 2AS launches Hispasat 1D |
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Spanish satellite soars aboard Atlas 2AS rocket
Like clockwork, a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket blasted off on schedule September 18, toting a Spanish telecommunications satellite high above Earth to rack up another successful launch.
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AV-001: Maiden voyage of Atlas 5 |
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Next-generation Atlas 5 sailed 'perfect' first voyage
Riding a tongue of golden flame from its Russian-made engine, Lockheed Martin's first Atlas 5 booster sailed into space August 21 to successfully open a new chapter for America's rocket industry.
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AC-143: Atlas 2A launches TDRS-I |
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Atlas 2A rocket launches NASA data relay satellite
An advanced communications satellite built to keep NASA's orbiting data relay network working for years to come was successfully hauled into space March 8 aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket.
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AC-204: Atlas 3B launches EchoStar 7 |
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Lockheed Martin Atlas 3B rocket has successful debut
After more than 40 years of flights using numerous reincarnations, the evolution of the American Atlas rocket took another step February 21 with the successful maiden launch of the largest and most powerful version of the storied booster - the Atlas 3B.
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AC-162: Atlas 2AS launches NRO craft |
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Atlas 2AS rocket propels top-secret cargo into orbit
While America strikes back against terrorism half-way around the world, a surge of three previously-planned U.S. national security satellite launches in one month's time was completed successfully October 10 as a Lockheed Martin Atlas rocket soared into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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AC-160: Atlas 2AS launches NRO craft |
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Clandestine cargo carried into space by Atlas rocket
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket lumbered off its foggy launch pad September 8 carrying its heaviest cargo ever, a hush-hush spy satellite payload that observers suspect will eavesdrop on enemy ships sailing across the vast oceans of planet Earth.
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AC-142: Atlas 2A launches GOES-M |
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Atlas rocket launches U.S. weather satellite
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on July 23 and placed the GOES-M weather satellite into the proper orbit.
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AC-156: Atlas 2AS launches ICO F-2 |
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Atlas launches foundation of ICO satellite system
The orbital assembly of a new wireless telephone and data relay satellite network began on June 19 when a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket successfully launched the cornerstone spacecraft for the ICO system.
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AC-157: Atlas 2AS launches NRO craft |
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Atlas rocket launches classified cargo
A satellite cargo hidden in a veil of secrecy was successfully transported into space by a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket on December 5 during a widely watched launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral.
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AC-140: Atlas 2A launches DSCS B11 |
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Atlas rocket delivers U.S. government satellite aloft
A $200 million satellite that will relay sensitive U.S. national security communications between the president, military and diplomats was rocketed into orbit October 19 by a Lockheed Martin Atlas booster.
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AC-161: Atlas 2AS launches EchoStar 6 |
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EchoStar 6 TV satellite delivered to orbit by Atlas
Lockheed Martin's commercial Atlas rocket fleet kept its long-running success streak unblemished July 14 by lofting into space the most powerful direct broadcasting satellite.
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AC-139: Atlas 2A launches TDRS-H |
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Updated NASA tracking satellite launched into space
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket soared into the Central Florida morning sky June 30 on a $395 million mission to fortify NASA's communications relay link between Earth and space.
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AC-201: Inaugural Atlas 3A rocket |
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First Atlas 3 gives Lockheed Martin 'exhilarating' ride
Lockheed Martin officials were still savoring the sweet thrill of success on Thursday, May 25, one day after the Atlas 3 rocket flew a perfect inaugural flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Atlas 3 rocket achieves success in debut launch
A rocket born of American and Russian space technology sailed smoothly through its maiden voyage on May 24, bucking the recent trend of misfortune during inaugural launches.
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Atlas 3 rocket poised to fly historic maiden voyage
American and Russian technology once poised to annihilate the enemy country will come together for a peaceful and historic marriage at Cape Canaveral when Lockheed Martin launches the first Atlas 3 rocket.
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AC-137: Atlas 2A launches GOES-L |
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U.S. has a new weather satellite circling Earth
The United States launched its newest weather-watching satellite on May 3 to ensure forecasters have accurate information during this summer's predicted active hurricane season.
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Critical new U.S. weather satellite ready for launch
A sophisticated eye-in-the-sky weather satellite is awaiting a predawn launch into space on May 3 to serve as reinforcement for the United States. A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket will loft the GOES-L satellite from Cape Canaveral.
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AC-158: Atlas 2AS launches Hispasat 1C |
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Spanish satellite rides Atlas rocket into Earth orbit
Neither the weather nor a minor technical problem could spoil the February 3 launch of a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket carrying the Spanish Hispasat 1C communications satellite.
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AC-138: Atlas 2A launches DSCS-B8 |
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Atlas soars into 2000
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket streaked into the Florida night sky on January 20, hurling a U.S. Air Force satellite into orbit to relay communications between military commanders and troops around the globe.
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AC-141: Atlas 2AS launches Terra |
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Atlas rocket launches NASA's Terra satellite
The first Atlas-Centaur rocket to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California was a success on December 18. The Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS vehicle placed NASA's Terra environmental research satellite into near-polar orbit.
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Terra to lead the way in NASA's Earth research
NASA plans to launch Terra on Thursday, the "flagship" to the Earth Observing System series of satellites. EOS is part of a precedent setting program designed to provide daily information on the health of the planet.
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The official embroidered patch for the Ares 1-X rocket test flight, is available for purchase.
This beautiful one piece set features the Apollo program emblem surrounded by the individual mission logos.
The official embroidered patch for the International Space Station Expedition 21 crew is now available from our stores.
The official embroidered patch for mission STS-125, the space shuttle's last planned service call to the Hubble Space Telescope, is available for purchase.
