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		Rocket: Atlas 5 (AV-014) Payload: ICO G1 Date: April 14, 2008 Window: 4:12-5:12 p.m. EDT (2012-2112 GMT) Site: Complex 41, Cape Canaveral, Florida Broadcast: Intelsat Galaxy 26, Transponder 7, C-band, 93° West Mission Status Center Launch events timeline Ground track map Atlas 5 rocket info Cape's Complex 41 Atlas archive

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Atlas rolled to launch pad
Posted: April 13, 2008

The Atlas 5 rocket was transported from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 on Sunday morning. The rollout came a day before the rocket's planned liftoff on a mission to deliver into orbit the commercial ICO G1 mobile communications spacecraft.

Photo credit: Karl Ronstrom/ULA

Photo credit: Pat Corkery/ULA

Photo credit: Karl Ronstrom/ULA

Photo credit: Karl Ronstrom/ULA

Photo credit: Pat Corkery/ULA

Photo credit: Pat Corkery/ULA

Photo credit: Karl Ronstrom/ULA

Photo credit: Karl Ronstrom/ULA

Photo credit: Pat Corkery/ULA

Photo credit: Pat Corkery/ULA

Photo credit: Pat Corkery/ULA

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