Photos: More shots of Thursday’s Atlas 5 rocket launch

July 28, 2016

Departing Cape Canaveral at 8:37 a.m. EDT Thursday, the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted a classified national security satellite into orbit for deployment.

Photos by Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now

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Atlas 5 AV-065 Launch National Reconnaissance Office NROL-61 United Launch Alliance

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