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and we have now entered the hold in the team - count the L o'clock still continues so what they launch - o'clock were at 18 minutes 50 seconds until liftoff this is the first interplanetary launch for NASA from the west coast but NASA is no stranger to the Atlas 5 rocket which you see on the screen in fact this launch of insight on the Atlas 5 will be the 17th time nASA has flown a spacecraft on this rocket all previous NASA interplanetary missions have launched from Florida's Atlantic coast either Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or the adjacent NASA's Kennedy Space Center 25 go check go atlas go Center go in sight we're at t-minus 15 seconds eight seven six five four three two liftoff of the Atlas 5 launching the first interplanetary mission from the west coast and NASA's insight the first outer space robotic Explorer to study the interior of Mars the compadre rates continue look good ah Quan the rocket is now traveling faster than the speed of sound earn altitude is 13 miles downrange distance seven miles current velocity nineteen hundred and sixty five miles per hour current velocity four thousand five hundred forty-two miles per hour you're looking at a live view from the Atlas five rocket the rd-180 engine continues to burn good 3180 still performing well and the second state stage engine that our Elton has ignited and we have indication of payload fairing jettison such a good step and the payload fairing that was encapsulating the inside spacecraft has been jettisoned the rl10 sea engine the second stage of the centaur continues to burn you're looking at live animation telemetry very good of the Centaur second stage on its flight path rgn to purge firings underway thermal conditioning and we have indications spacecraft so that's confirmation of spacecraft separation behind us the Roma a lot of excited people have a short coast of approximately thirty four seconds or we elaborate has a launch perfect I'm done this will be the first pair of cube sets to go to deep space they carry radio I gain antenna and ocean system with the goal to provide data relay to the earth from the entry descent and landing phase of the insight mission and just moments away from the first two cubes that's to deployed and we have the first Arkell a spacecraft separation Center is now spinning up first half of the 180-degree turn centaur has completed the turn now in an attitude hold for spacecraft separation and we have indication of our Kobe in deployed and the second of two cube sets has been deployed