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View Comments Note: We've brought you a front-row seat to rocket launches from Florida since 1966. Journalism like our space coverage takes time and resources. Please consider a subscription. --- A nearly 200-foot Atlas V rocket soared from its Florida pad on Tuesday, taking the Space Force's newest satellite designed to detect ballistic missile launches back on Earth. Powered by one main engine and two strap-on solid rocket boosters, the United Launch Alliance rocket vaulted off Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Launch Complex 41 at 1:37 p.m., just six minutes after the window opened. UL...

Space Force launches billion-dollar satellite to warn of missile launches By William Harwood May 18, 2021 / 3:48 PM / CBS News A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, boosting a billion-dollar missile early warning satellite into orbit to scan the Earth below for the tell-tale heat generated by a threatening rocket launch. Once operational, after tests and checkout, the new satellite will join four other Space Based Infrared System — SBIRS — spacecraft already in orbit 22,300 miles above the equator that use telescopes an...

ULA to loft Space Force missile tracking satellite in first Atlas V launch of 2021 May 17, 2021 A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 421 is at Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of its mission to loft a new Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) military reconnaissance satellite into Geostationary transfer orbit. Liftoff of SBIRS GEO-5 is scheduled for 17:35 UTC (13:35 EDT) on Monday, 17 May. The flight will mark the first 2021 launch of ULA’s Atlas V rocket and the second launch made by the company this year following the April launch of NROL-82...

Its geographical location made the former Army garrison ideal for missile tests and launches into polar orbit. May 17th, 2021 An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile launches during a test at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Feb. 23, 2021. Brittany E. N. Murphy, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command via AP, File VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base was renamed Friday as a U.S. Space Force Base. The name was changed to Vandenberg Space Force Base during an afternoon ceremony on the parade field at the sprawling base on ...