NASA MAVEN ULA Atlas V Launch Complete Coverage

Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) is a space probe designed to study the Martian atmosphere while orbiting Mars. Mission goals include determining how the Martian atmosphere and water, presumed to be substantial earlier, were lost over time.

MAVEN was successfully launched aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle at the beginning of the first launch window on November 18, 2013. Following the first engine burn of the Centaur second stage, the vehicle coasted in low-Earth orbit for 27 minutes before a five-minute second Centaur burn to insert into a heliocentric Mars transit orbit.

On September 22, 2014, the plan is for MAVEN to be inserted into an orbit around Mars: an areocentric elliptic orbit 6,200 km (3,900 mi) by 150 km (93 mi) above Mars' surface. The principal investigator for the spacecraft is Bruce Jakosky of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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18:06- T- 2 Hours and Counting
2:14:06- T- 4 Minutes and Holding
2:24:06- T- 4 Minutes and Counting
2:28:06- Liftoff

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2:01:27- Launch Weather Officer, Clay Flynn.