United Launch Alliance Atlas V Awarded Four NASA Rocket Launch Missions

United Launch Alliance Atlas V Awarded Four NASA Rocket Launch Missions:

"DENVER, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded United Launch Alliance (ULA) four science and communications missions set to launch in the first half of the next decade. All four missions will fly aboard ULA's Atlas V rocket and are scheduled to launch between 2011-2014. The four launches are the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), two Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS-K and TDRS-L) and the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission.

"The launches will be provided under terms of a launch service agreement procured previously by NASA's Kennedy Space Center for this vehicle. The liftoffs will all occur from Space Launch Complex-41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., will manage all four missions."



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