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Air Force selects Atlas 5 to launch multipurpose satellite to high orbit

Jun 30, 2017

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An Atlas 5-551 will launch the Air Force’s STP 3 mission. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — A nuclear blast detection satellite and an assortment of experiments will be boosted directly into geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above Earth in 2019 by the most-powerful version of United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket, the Air Force has decided.…