Much of Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center is filled with thick scrub land.
The bushes and shrubs and palmettos provide a habitat for very unique species in Florida, like the #endangered Florida Scrub Jay.
Beyond that scrub land, the ULA Vertical Integration Facility with an Atlas V rocket seems to rise out of a sea of green scrub land.
A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket lifting off from #SLC41 at #CapeCanaveral.
The #ULA #AtlasV is in its 531 configuration, with a five meter fairing, three solid rocket boosters, and one upper stage engine.
It’s carrying a US #AirForce #AEHF2 #satellite to orbit.
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A #ULA #Atlas V #rocket in the 551 configuration lifting off from LC-41 at #CCAFS carrying #NASA’s #Juno probe to #Jupiter.
Juno’s #JunoCam camera instrument was not intended as part of the original science payload, but has returned hundreds of images of Jupiter’s clouds with incredible detail.
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A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket lifting off its #launchpad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station SLC-41. This #AtlasV is carrying a #GPS satellite into orbit.
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#Atlas #rockets, from the original SM-65 up to the Atlas II AS used three #engines on #launch, the outer two of which would be jettisoned about two minutes into the flight, leaving the center “sustainer” engine burning.
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An old #Atlas #rocket #disassembled and being refurbished for display at a museum at Cape Canaveral.
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A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket sits on the #launchpad at SL-41.
This #AtlasV is carrying a #NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite for NASA’s TDRSS system that allows it to maintain communication with its spacecraft in Earth orbit.
Congratulations to #ULA on the successful first launch of the new vehicle, Vulcan-Centaur.
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A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket soars into the sky after #launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying a #GPS Block IIF satellite.
Congrats to ULA for it successful first launch of its Vulcan-Centaur launch vehicle.
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A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket clears the obstructions around the #launch pad and is beginning its journey to put the #Echostart XIX #satellite into #orbit.
This #ULA #AtlasV has a 4 meter diameter payload fairing, three solid rocket boosters, and one engine on its upper stage.
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The early #Atlas #rocket was not painted, except for a few markings like the words, “United States,” as on this example in the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex’s #Rocket Garden.
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