article_snippet: rocket blasted off from Florida on Thursday with a quartet of .
article_snippet: Perched atop Atlas 5 rocket were four identical satellites .
article_snippet: designed to fly in a pyramid formation high around Earth.
article_snippet: An unmanned An unmanned Atlas rocket blasted off Thursday night from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft .
article_snippet: An unmanned Atlas rocket will be placed into an oblong orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles into the magnetosphere .
highlights_snippet: Atlas 5 rocket was carrying four satellites .
  
highlights_snippet: When in space, all four will be arranged in a pyramid formation, flying within about 6 miles of one anoter .