If you imagined that capturing a cosmic speedster was as easy as aiming a rocket and blasting, forget it intercepting ...

Editor’s note: ULA Atlas V, Amazon rocket launch for Wednesday, April 9, 2025, was scrubbed due to weather. For updates and launch replay, click here. When United Launch Alliance launches its ...

ULA provided a helpful graphic (see above) that shows the Atlas V launch of Kuiper 1 for Amazon and its intended flight path and launch visibility. Note: Cities in the Space Coast of Florida ...

Since 2017, three interstellar objects have been spotted passing through our solar system: 1I/ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov… and just ...

The Atlas V rocket for the SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 mission sits at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Aug. 28, 2023. (Courtesy/NRO) ...

Editor’s note: ULA Atlas V, Amazon rocket launch for Wednesday, April 9, 2025, was scrubbed due to weather. For updates and launch replay, click here.

An Atlas V rocket lit up the predawn sky over Florida early Tuesday (Dec. 7) to launch a novel NASA laser space communications satellite into orbit.

So it was pure chance that the Atlas V rocket lifted off at 1:37 p.m. EDT (1737 GMT), just as the plane was over coastal Florida; luckier still for the Delta passengers, the launch had been ...

The Atlas V rocket, standing 191-feet-tall and built by United Launch Alliance, climbed away from Space Launch Complex-3 on South Base at 1:49 a.m.

The U.S. curbed its reliance on the Atlas V in part due to the fact that its RD-180 engines were Russian-made, and the U.S. had placed sanctions on Russia following its annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Launch of the Atlas V rocket with WorldView-4 began with ignition of the rocket’s RD-180 engine 2.7 seconds before the countdown reached zero.

The Atlas V flew in her 541 configuration, however her Centaur upper stage sported an RL10C engine for the first time. As is normal for National Reconnaissance Office spacecraft, NROL-35’s ...