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Much of Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center is filled with thick scrub land.
The bushes and shrubs and palmettos provide a habitat for very unique species in Florida, like the #endangered Florida Scrub Jay.
Beyond that scrub land, the ULA Vertical Integration Facility with an Atlas V rocket seems to rise out of a sea of green scrub land.

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An outdoor, daylight photograph of a tall, white building with an American flag painted vertically on the side, with metal stairways below the flag. Next to the tower is an Atlas five rocket with a white cone on top, a white cylinder joining it, then a narrower white cylinder, and finally a wider, copper-colored one.
The bottom half of the image is covered in green plants, with palmettos and shrubs of many types visible.
The upper portion of the image shows a cloudy, gray sky.

A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket lifting off from #SLC41 at #CapeCanaveral.
The #ULA #AtlasV is in its 531 configuration, with a five meter fairing, three solid rocket boosters, and one upper stage engine.
It’s carrying a US #AirForce #AEHF2 #satellite to orbit.

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An outdoor, daylight photograph of a rocket launching from the other side of a body of water. The rocket, copper-colored on the bottom with a white, cynlindrical middle and rounded top.
A column of bright orange flame emerges from the bottom of the rocket and a trail of dust and smoke lead from the rocket down to its pad on the horizon.

A #ULA #Atlas V #rocket in the 551 configuration lifting off from LC-41 at #CCAFS carrying #NASA’s #Juno probe to #Jupiter.
Juno’s #JunoCam camera instrument was not intended as part of the original science payload, but has returned hundreds of images of Jupiter’s clouds with incredible detail.

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A photograph of an Atlas 5 rocket lifting of its pad at Cape Canaveral. Flames can be seen under the rocket, and a cloud of steam and dust has expanded behind the rocket.
There are 4 truss towers surrounding the rocket.
Underneath the launchpad in the image are trees and greenery, below which is calm, blue water.

A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket lifting off its #launchpad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station SLC-41. This #AtlasV is carrying a #GPS satellite into orbit.

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An outdoor, daylight photograph of a rocket launching. There is a body of water and strip of green brush in between the launch pad and the camera. The rocket is ascending on a column of orange flame. White smoke and dusk is being blown into a cloud behind the pad.

#Atlas #rockets, from the original SM-65 up to the Atlas II AS used three #engines on #launch, the outer two of which would be jettisoned about two minutes into the flight, leaving the center “sustainer” engine burning.

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An outdoor, daylight photograph of three rocket engine nozzles in a row, partly shielded by a white metal barrier. The three engine nozzles are gray and stand just above the surface of the cement underneath.

An old #Atlas #rocket #disassembled and being refurbished for display at a museum at Cape Canaveral.

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An outdoor landscape photograph of an old, shiny metal rocket body on a horizontal carrier with several rocket parts nearby. There is an open grass field starting at the bottom of the frame and extending to a chain-link fence around the concrete pad on which the rocket parts rest.

A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket sits on the #launchpad at SL-41.
This #AtlasV is carrying a #NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite for NASA’s TDRSS system that allows it to maintain communication with its spacecraft in Earth orbit.

Congratulations to #ULA on the successful first launch of the new vehicle, Vulcan-Centaur.

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An outdoor, night time photograph of an Atlas 5 rocket, illuminated on its launch pad by harsh, white xenon lamps, venting a condensation cloud halfway up its body.
Other, yellow-orange sodium vapor lights are also visible around the rocket.

A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket soars into the sky after #launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying a #GPS Block IIF satellite.

Congrats to ULA for it successful first launch of its Vulcan-Centaur launch vehicle.

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A vertically oriented, outdoor, daylight photograph of the sky with a rocket in the upper third of the frame.
The rocket has a copper-colored bottom with a column of orange flame on the bottom and a white cylinder and cone

A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket clears the obstructions around the #launch pad and is beginning its journey to put the #Echostart XIX #satellite into #orbit.
This #ULA #AtlasV has a 4 meter diameter payload fairing, three solid rocket boosters, and one engine on its upper stage.
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An outdoor, daylight photograph of a sandy beach meeting a grassy dune. In the center of the frame, with the dune and beach underneath, a rocket rises on a bright orange column of fire. There are four metal towers around the rocket that it has just finished climbing over. There is a white cloud of dust and exhaust in a cloud emerging from the ground on the left, while the sky above and to the right is clear blue.

The early #Atlas #rocket was not painted, except for a few markings like the words, “United States,” as on this example in the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex’s #Rocket Garden.

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An outdoor, daylight photograph of a shiny, silvery metallic rocket body of a cylinder topped by a conical section. The words “United States” are written vertically on the rocket’s body. The sky is a light blue and is reflected by the silvery skin of the rocket.

The #Atlas V #rocket, operated by United Launch Alliance, launches from LC-41, and old Titan rocket pad.
The rocket is stacked in the white tower on the left and rolled out to the pad on a Mobile Launch Platform.
The #MLP has a tower to provide umbilical connections to the rocket before launch.

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An outdoor, daylight photograph looking beyond a body of water to a shoreline of green trees. Beyond is a tall, white tower on the left side of the image, and two truss towers on the right. In the middle is a shorter, darker tower on top of the rocket’s launch pad.

A view of United Launch Alliance’s Vertical Integration Facility at Cape #Canaveral Air Force Station with an #Atlas V #rocket with the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or #RBSP probes, later renamed the Van Allen #probes, to study the Earth’s magnetic field.
The #AtlasV is on its Mobile Launch Platform and is preparing to be rolled out to its launch pad at LC-41.

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An outdoor photograph of the upper stage and white, conical payload fairing of an Atlas 5 rocket, which is inside its Vertical Integration Facility whose doors are open. The Facility is a white tower, but its lower half is obscured by trees.

The #Atlas launch vehicle has evolved over the many years. The first Atlas SM-65 was a nuclear missile modified to launch spacecraft. Upper stages were added like Agena and Centaur.
The #skin of the #AtlasRocket was made of stainless #steel and thinner than a US #dime. The tanks could not support their own weight and had to be pressurized with gas to prevent them from crumpling.
This was true from Atlas, to Atlas-Centaur, to Atlas I, Atlas IIAS, and Atlas III.
The #AtlasV’s skin is made of isogrid aluminum; this being a type of machined aluminum that removed triangular sections from the inside of the tank walls, saving weight while preserving strength.
A copper-colored outer cladding is added.

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A United #Launch Alliance #Atlas V 401 #rocket carries NROL-33 (probably a classified #NRO communications #satellite that will make up part of its #Quasar comm system that allows the #NationalReconnaissanceOffice to maintain contact with its spy satellites.
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An outdoor, daytime photograph of a rocket flying in the sky with a trail of flame and condensation behind. The rocket’s nose is a sharply-pointed cone that joins to a cylinder, then reducing in diameter again and remaining the same the rest of the way. The top is white while the bottom is mostly copper-colored. The sky behind the rocket is cloudless and blue.

A United #Launch Alliance #Atlas V rocket climbs above the Lightning Arrestor Towers around LC-41 and #ULA’s Vertical Integration Facility.
The #AtlasV is in its 401 configuration with a 4 meter fairing, no SRBs, and 1 upper stage engine.
Its payload is a new GPS satellite.
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An outdoor, daytime photograph of a ULA Atlas V rocket climbing on a trail of fire, over its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rocket has risen over most of the pad obstacles and created a large cloud of dust and vapor on the right.

A United #Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket carrying a #Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station.
After an #Antares rocket exploded shortly after lightoff, Orbital-ATK purchased launch services from #ULA for their cargo #spacecraft, and then another.
This mission, OA-7, was the first flight of the improved Cygnus. Each vehicle is named, and the #OA7 mission was named “SS John Glenn.”
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A photograph of an Atlas V rocket flying though the sky straight up, with thin clouds in the distance. Bright flames are emitted from the engine.

#SpaceSaturday: This is a refurbished #Atlas #rocket #engine LR89-NA-7 produced by #Rocketdyne until 1960S. The original #AtlasRocket was a “Stage-and-a-Half” type rocket. #Engineers had concerns about the reliability of igniting an engine at high altitude, so the Atlas launched with all 3 engines burning, and would then jettison the two “booster” engines on either side of the “sustainer” engine after about two and a half minutes and continue to fly on the remaining engine.
The Soviet R-7 also ignited all its engines at liftoff, then jettisoned the four outboard stages, tanks and engines, and leave only a single set of fuel and oxidizer tanks and a set of engines remaining, a method called parallel staging.
This #RocketEngine is on display the Air Force #Space and #Missile #Museum in Cape #Canaveral, #Florida.
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