CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — In a rare double launch night, United Launch Alliance is going to send up its Atlas V rocket that will carry a ViaSat communications satellite on Wednesday.

The ViaSat-3 Flight 2 mission will take off on the Atlas V 551 rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, stated ULA .

The launch window opens at 10:24 p.m. ET and closes at 11:08 p.m. ET, which means the 205-foot-tall (62.5-meter) rocket needs to take off during that time frame.

The 45th Weather Squadron is giving a good launch forecast at 95%, with the only concerns being the cumulus cloud rule.

The Atlas V 551 rocket’s first-stage booster does not land on a droneship or landing zone, which is what the more familiar SpaceX rocket, the Falcon 9, does. Instead,

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