Tag: Aerojet Rocketdyne
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Live coverage: Delta 4 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s tenth Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ULA’s live video coverage of the Delta 4 launch will begin March 15 at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT). We will…
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Photos: Mobile gantry retracted at Delta 4 launch pad
These photos show the 330-foot-tall mobile service tower moving into position for liftoff of a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37B launch pad Friday. The 218-foot-tall (66-meter) rocket is set for liftoff during a launch window opening at 6:56 p.m. EDT (2256 GMT) and extending to 9:05 p.m. EDT (0105 GMT). The mission’s…
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Delta 4 rocket’s launch timeline with WGS 10
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will deliver the U.S. Air Force’s tenth Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite to a supersynchronous transfer orbit around 37 minutes after lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff is scheduled during a launch window opening at 6:56 p.m. EDT (2256 GMT) Friday. The window extends to 9:05 p.m. EDT…
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ULA plans to ring in the weekend with Friday evening launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) on March 14 with new weather forecast. The Delta 4 rocket’s payload fairing, containing the U.S. Air Force’s WGS 10 communications satellites, is readied for mounting atop the launcher Feb. 26 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance ground…
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Military satellite joined with Delta 4 rocket at Cape Canaveral
Artist’s illustration of a Wideband Global SATCOM satellite in orbit. Credit: Boeing The addition of a U.S. Air Force communications satellite has capped the assembly of a 218-foot-tall (66-meter) United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket at Cape Canaveral set for liftoff the evening of March 13. The Air Force’s 10th Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite…
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Delta 4-Heavy countdown aborted moments before launch
Video credit: United Launch Alliance A dramatic automatic abort 7.5 seconds before the planned liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket Saturday night kept the towering launcher on the pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, with a top secret spy payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. The 233-foot-tall (71-meter) rocket was counting…
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Photos: Delta 4-Heavy poised for launch with U.S. spy satellite
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket stands 233 feet (71 meters) tall at Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, ready for liftoff Saturday night carrying a top secret U.S. government spy satellite into orbit. The triple-core rocket measures 53 feet (16 meters) wide with its three first stage boosters bolted together.…
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Live coverage: Delta 4-Heavy launch scrubbed again
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket with the National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-71 payload. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ULA’s live video coverage of the Delta 4 launch will begin Dec. 19 at 5:24 p.m. PST (8:24 p.m. EST; 0124 GMT on Dec. 20).
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Atlas 5 rocket begins arriving in Florida for commercial crew test flight
The dual-engine Centaur upper stage assigned to the first launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is transported from ULA’s Mariner vessel to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday. Credit: NASA/Chris Chamberland The Centaur upper stage destined to send Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule into orbit on its first unpiloted test flight next year has…
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Seattle space leaders make their pitch to lawmakers for a new rocket test facility
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash, get a tour of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s campus in Redmond, Wash., from the facility’s general manager, Ken Young. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) REDMOND, Wash. — One of Congress’ leading Democrats, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, met with leaders of the Seattle area’s space community today…