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Monday, December 08, 2014

Atlas V Rocket to Launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Thursday — Weather Permitting

Atlas V payload fairingThe most powerful Atlas V rocket is scheduled to fly for the first time from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Thursday evening, carrying clandestine cargo into orbit, some 55 years after a very different version of the venerable booster made its debut on the West Coast.

Liftoff of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster from Space Launch Complex-3 East on South Base is expected to occur between 6 and 8 p.m. Thursday.

The actual launch window for the 200-foot-tall rocket remains classified due to the hush-hush spacecraft on board for the National Reconnaissance Office mission dubbed NROL-35.

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