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MUOS-1 Satellite Launches on Atlas 5 Rocket
Credit: Pat Corkery, United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS-1 Satellite Launches on Atlas 5 Rocket
Credit: Pat Corkery, United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS-1 Satellite Launches on Atlas 5 Rocket
Credit: Pat Corkery, United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS-1 Satellite Launches on Atlas 5 Rocket
Credit: Pat Corkery, United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS-1 Satellite Launches on Atlas 5 Rocket
Credit: Pat Corkery, United Launch Alliance
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.
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LIFTOFF! Atlas 5 Launches MUOS-1
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS-1 Satellite Launches on Atlas 5 Rocket
Credit: Pat Corkery, United Launch Alliance
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.
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LIFTOFF! Atlas 5 Launches MUOS-1
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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LIFTOFF! Atlas 5 Launches MUOS-1
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS-1 Launch: SRB Separation
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS-1 Satellite Launch: View from Space
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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LIFTOFF! Atlas 5 Launches MUOS-1
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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Rocket Night Lights
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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Credit: United Launch Alliance
MUOS-1 Satellite Launch: View from Space
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MUOS-1 Launch Contrail
Credit: USAF 45th Space Wing
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.
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U.S. Navy's MUOS-1 Mission
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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John Glenn and Wife at ULA
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS-1 Satellite's Atlas 5 Rocket
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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Atlas 5 Rocket Poised to Launch MUOS-1
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS-1 Satellite at T-minus 4 Minutes
Credit: United Launch Alliance
MUOS-1 Satellite sits in the T-minus 4 minutes hold, February 16, 2012.
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Atlas 5 Rocket Poised to Launch MUOS-1
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS-1 Satellite Mated to the Launch Vehicle
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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Atlas 5 Rocket Carrying MUOS-1 Satellite
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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Mobile User Objective System Satellite
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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
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MUOS-1 Satellite Rolls to the Pad
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
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MUOS Satellite Encapsulated by Payload Fairing
Credit: United Launch Alliance
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.
