...况以为宇航员重返月球作准备，NASA于2009年6月18日，在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角基地利用一枚“宇宙神-5”运载火箭(Atlas V rocket)将月球探测器(Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,LRO)和月球陨石坑观察与感测卫星(Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite,...
The Landsat satellite was boosted into orbit by an AtlasVrocket shortly before 11:30 a.m. local time, more than an hour after lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base under mostly clear skies.
Glen Fountain from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab says New Horizons will launch atop the speediest interplanetary rocket ever, a supercharged AtlasV.