Tag: Air Force
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Live coverage: Tonight’s Delta 4 countdown and launch journal
(Launch webcast begins at 12:27 a.m. EDT) Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket flight with two GSSAP space situational awareness satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Preview: Two space informants to be launched to geosynchronous orbit
Payload fairing logo for this launch. CAPE CANAVERAL — The Air Force will launch a second pair of small security probes 22,300 miles above the Earth using a Delta 4 rocket on Friday to alert ground controllers of impending space collisions and monitor potential meddling with U.S. orbiting assets. The once-classified Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness…
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Photos and video: Payload hoisted atop Delta 4 for upcoming launch
The two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP, satellites for the U.S. military were mounted aboard the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket on Aug. 5. Photos and video of the operation were released today. Liftoff is planned for Aug. 19 from Cape Canaveral. Photos and video by United Launch Alliance See earlier Delta…
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Air Force satellite duo mated to Delta 4 rocket for next week’s launch
File photo of first GSSAP payload delivery to pad in 2014. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Two space informants to track objects in geosynchronous orbit have been mounted atop their Delta 4 launch vehicle for liftoff Aug. 19. The United Launch Alliance rocket will carry the pair of Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP,…
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Next missile warning sentinel set for October launch to geosynchronous orbit
SBIRS GEO Flight 3 in the factory before shipment. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — A highly sophisticated U.S. Air Force satellite to sound the alarm when an enemy missile launches has shipped to its Florida launch site for liftoff in October aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. The third Space Based Infrared…
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Delta 4 rocket undergoes launch day rehearsal for its next Air Force mission
CAPE CANAVERAL — A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket went through a practice countdown and fueling exercise this week to prepare for its Aug. 19 liftoff to deliver a pair of orbital surveillance satellites into space. Known as a Wet Dress Rehearsal, the test at Complex 37 was conducted on Wednesday, July 27, a…
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Delta 4 rolls out for second launch in ‘neighborhood watch’ effort
File video of Delta 4 rollout. Courtesy of NASA-KSC CAPE CANAVERAL — Just three weeks after the Delta 4-Heavy rocket left the launch pad on its way to a successful satellite-deployment mission for U.S. national security, a smaller booster in the family has rolled out for its August military flight. The United Launch Alliance Delta…
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Photos: More shots of Saturday’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket Launch
Departing on three pillars of fire, the United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifted off at 1:51 p.m. from Cape Canaveral for a classified national security satellite deployment. Photos by Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now See earlier Delta 374 coverage. Our Delta archive.
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Photos: Spectacular start to Delta 4-Heavy’s satellite deployment mission
The United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket fired away from Cape Canaveral at 1:51 p.m. EDT Saturday to deploy a covert surveillance satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images See earlier Delta 374 coverage. Our Delta archive.
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Photos: Gantry rollback for second launch attempt
After being put back in position around the Delta 4-Heavy rocket after Thursday’s weather scrub, the 330-foot tall mobile service tower is retracted again at Cape Canaveral’s pad 37B for launch that will place the NROL-37 payload into Earth orbit. Photos by Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now See earlier Delta 374 coverage. Our Delta archive.