🚀Rocket and satellite preps on track for next Atlas 5 launch

By Sattelite, Space

🚀Rocket and satellite preps on track for next Atlas 5 launch.

United Launch Alliance has started final assembly of the Atlas V rocket that is set to launch Jan. 18 to send to the geostationary Earth orbit a Lockheed Martin-built satellite designed to help the U.S. Air Force provide missile warning data to the U.S. and its allies, Spaceflight Now reported Friday.

Spaceflight Now

https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/29/rocket-and-satellite-preps-on-track-for-next-atlas-5-launch/

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