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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifted off from Florida’s Space Coast on Saturday, embarking on a long mission to deliver the GPS IIF-11 satellite to Medium Earth Orbit in support of the continued modernization of the Global Positioning System satellite fleet. Blasting off from SLC-41 at 16:13 UTC, Atlas V fired its first stage for a little over four minutes followed by a burn of nearly 13 minutes conducted by the Centaur upper stage to put the craft into a parking orbit for a three-hour coast ahead of the critical circularization maneuver aiming for an orbit over 20,000 Kilometers in altitude. Spacecraft separation is expected at 19:36 UTC to mark mission success for the 59th Atlas V flight.
