Atlas 5 rocket poised for NASA satellite launch

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket stands poised at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 for liftoff to deploy NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes.

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Photo credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now

Nicola Fox, the RBSP deputy project scientist from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, is interviewed by a film crew at the launch pad.