ULA launches secretive satellite at Cape Canaveral
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ULA launches secretive satellite at Cape Canaveral
A communications satellite has been launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carried aloft aboard an Atlas 5 rocket.The Atlas V lifted off at 8:10 p.m. Tuesday through a dark and cloudy sky after several weather-related delays. Liftoff came near the end of a nearly 2 and ½ hour window.Also see: Family homeless after roommate allegedly torches mobile homeUnited Launch Alliance, which is behind the Atlas V, oversaw the mission launching the so-called CLIO satellite built by Lockheed-Martin.Officials released no information about the satellite's mission nor for which government agency it was sent into space.List: Florida's top 50 high schools of 2014
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
A communications satellite has been launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carried aloft aboard an Atlas 5 rocket.
The Atlas V lifted off at 8:10 p.m. Tuesday through a dark and cloudy sky after several weather-related delays. Liftoff came near the end of a nearly 2 and ½ hour window.
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Also see: Family homeless after roommate allegedly torches mobile home
United Launch Alliance, which is behind the Atlas V, oversaw the mission launching the so-called CLIO satellite built by Lockheed-Martin.
Officials released no information about the satellite's mission nor for which government agency it was sent into space.