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		Rocket: Atlas 5 (AV-011) Payload: First Wideband Global SATCOM Date: Oct. 10, 2007 Window: 8:22-9:33 p.m. EDT (0022-0133 GMT) Site: Complex 41, Cape Canaveral, Florida Broadcast: G26, Transp. 14, C-band, 93° West Mission Status Center Restricted hazard area Launch events timeline Ground track map WGS satellite info Atlas 5 rocket info Cape's Complex 41 Atlas archive

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Atlas rolled to launch pad
Posted: October 9, 2007

The Atlas 5 rocket was transported from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 at 10 a.m. EDT this morning. The rollout came 34 hours before the rocket's planned liftoff on a mission to deliver into orbit the Air Force's highest capacity communications satellite -- the first Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft.

Photo credit: Karl Ronstrom/ULA

Credit: Karl Ronstrom/ULA

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