A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched tonight, January 24th 2014 at 02:33 UTC from Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral carrying NASA's newest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite - TDRS-L. <br /> <br />TDRS-L will be used to relay communications from spacecraft including the International Space Station back to earth. <br /> <br />This was the first Atlas launch of 2014 and the 43rd overall. This variation of the Atlas V, the 401 configuration, had no strap on boosters.
