CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the U.S. Air Force launched Saturday evening from Cape Canaveral.
Atlas V launched the Air Force Space Command's AFSPC-11 mission into space. The two-hour window opened at 7:13 p.m. Saturday.
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[Watch Saturday's launch at the bottom of the story]
Air Force Weather officials predicted an 80 percent chance of good launch conditions at the Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41.
🎵 Rollin rollin rollin. #AtlasV is rollin. See that rocket rollin, let’s go! 🎶 @AFSpace @AF_SMC @usairforce pic.twitter.com/yW9LctPOrK
— ULA (@ulalaunch) April 13, 2018
The Air Force mission was previously scheduled to launch in December and officials delayed liftoff until April.
The Atlas V will launch down range from a SpaceX Falcon 9 scheduled to lift off Monday carrying NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS.
In May, ULA will launch NASA's next robotic mission to Mars from California. Mars Insight is scheduled to blast off for the Red Planet on May 5 between 7:05 a.m. and 9:05 a.m. ET.