A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 24, 2012, with the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) satellite.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 24, 2012, with the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) satellite.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 24, 2012, with the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) satellite.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 24, 2012, with the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) satellite.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 24, 2012, with the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) satellite. At nearly 15,000 pounds, MUOS-1 marks the heaviest satellite launched to date by an Atlas launch vehicle.
This still from a United Launch Alliance broadcast shows an Atlas 5 rocket launching into space with the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 communications satellite on Feb. 24, 2012. Liftoff occured at 5:15 p.m. ET (2215 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 24, 2012, with the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) satellite. At nearly 15,000 pounds, MUOS-1 marks the heaviest satellite launched to date by an Atlas launch vehicle.
This still from a United Launch Alliance broadcast shows an Atlas 5 rocket launching into space with the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 communications satellite on Feb. 24, 2012. Liftoff occured at 5:15 p.m. ET (2215 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
This still from a United Launch Alliance broadcast shows an Atlas 5 rocket launching into space with the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 communications satellite on Feb. 24, 2012. Liftoff occured at 5:15 p.m. ET (2215 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
This still from a United Launch Alliance broadcast shows the moment of solid rocket booster separation from an Atlas 5 booster carrying the U.S. Navy's new MUOS-1 military communications satellite just after its launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 24, 2012.
The horizon of Earth dominates this dazzling still image from a United Launch Alliance broadcast of the Centaur upper stage of an Atlas 5 rocket carrying the MUOS-1 military communications satellite dhortly after it launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Feb. 24, 2012.
An Atlas 5 rocket launches into space carrying the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 communications satellite on Feb. 24, 2012. Liftoff occured at 5:15 p.m. ET (2215 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 stands ready to launch the MUOS-1 satellite for the U.S. Navy in February 2012 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
MUOS-1 Satellite Launch: View from Space
A misty contrail is all that remains behind after the successful launch of an Untied Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying the U.S. Navy's new MUOS-1 communications satellite on Feb. 24, 2011 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The mission poster for the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 satellite mission. MUOS-1 is an advanced next-generation communications satellite for the U.S. military that launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on Feb. 24, 2012 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
United Launch Alliance President and CEO Michael Gass welcomes Sen. John Glenn and his wife Annie to the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center for the first launch attempt of the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 satellite on Feb. 16, 2012 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 satellite is rolled to the launch pad at SLC-41 in preparation for launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Feb. 2012.
A United Launch Alliance rocket carrying the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 satellite stands poised for launch in this view from a ULA webcast on Feb. 16, 2012.
MUOS-1 Satellite sits in the T-minus 4 minutes hold, February 16, 2012.
A United Launch Alliance rocket carrying the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 satellite stands poised for launch in this view from a ULA webcast on Feb. 16, 2012.
In preparation for its launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V, the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 satellite is mated to the launch vehicle in the Vertical Integration Facility near SLC-41.
An Atlas 5 rocket stands poised to launch the U.S. Navy's advanced MUOS-1 communications satellite from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff is set for Feb. 16, 2012.
The U.S. Navy's first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite is encapsulated in a 5-meter diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying the U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 satellite is rolled to the launch pad at SLC-41 in preparation for launch.
The U.S. Navy's first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite is encapsulated in a 5-meter diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle.
