Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket set for launch today from Cape Canaveral

United Launch Alliance’s first mission of the year will debut a new configuration of the company’s workhorse Atlas 5 rocket when it lifts off at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) Friday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The rocket, featuring a wide fairing and a single solid rocket booster, will carry two U.S. military tracking and inspection satellites into geosynchronous orbit during a nearly seven-hour flight sequence.