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This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with the SBIRS GEO 5 satellite for U.S. military infrared reconnaissance. Launch is scheduled for Monday at 1:35 p.m. EDT (1735 GMT).
The Atlas 5 has a 40-minute window for takeoff Monday, and the 194-foot-tall rocket will arc to the east from Florida’s Space Coast on its first flight of the year. It will be the 87th Atlas 5 launch overall since United Launch Alliance’s workhorse rocket debuted in August 2002.