Tag: Airbus Defense and Space
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Live coverage: Arianespace launches its 10th mission of the year
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Vega rocket with the Mohammed VI-A reconnaissance satellite for the government of Morocco. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video webcast begins at approximately 0125 GMT (8:25 p.m. EST).
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Photos: Converted Russian ballistic missile fires into space with satellite
A decommissioned missile originally built in Russia to deliver nuclear weapons to intercontinental targets in the United States vaulted out of a vertical canister Friday and fired into space with a European satellite to monitor global air pollution. The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) Rockot booster took off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 1127:44 GMT…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at twilight
Launching into a clear autumn sky at sunset, a Falcon 9 rocket took off Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and delivered the SES 11/EchoStar 105 communications satellite to orbit. These photos show the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher’s climb away from pad 39A at the Florida spaceport. Liftoff occurred at 6:53 p.m. EDT (2253…
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Modified Russian missile boosts Europe’s newest environmental sentinel to space
A Rockot booster made from decommissioned Russian military missile stages carried Europe’s Sentinel 5P satellite to orbit Friday. Credit: ESA A European satellite that will collect daily air quality measurements over every major city on Earth rode an uprated Russian ballistic missile into orbit Friday. Assembled in Britain with a significant Dutch contribution, the Sentinel…
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Photos: Sentinel 5P environmental satellite prepared for liftoff
Europe’s Sentinel 5P satellite, fitted with a Dutch-developed spectrometer to measure gases in Earth’s atmosphere, was fueled and mated to its Russian Rockot booster over the last month at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military complex around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow. The 1,800-pound (820-kilogram) spacecraft is set for launch Friday at 0927:44 GMT…
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Live coverage: European environmental satellite launches from Russia
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rockot launcher with Europe’s Sentinel 5P environmental monitoring satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Video: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with joint satellite for SES, EchoStar
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Space Coast Wednesday evening with the SES 11/EchoStar 105 communications satellite, a video relay and data distribution platform jointly developed by SES and EchoStar. The two-stage launcher took off at 6:53 p.m. EDT (2253 GMT) Wednesday from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Powered…
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SpaceX launches its 15th mission of the year
Credit: SpaceX Maintaining a brisk flight rate three days after its last launch, SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 booster powered by a reused first stage into orbit Wednesday evening from Florida with an Airbus-built communications satellite for SES and EchoStar. The successful launch placed the 5.7-ton (5.2-metric ton) satellite in a “supersynchronous” orbit arcing thousands…
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with SES 11/EchoStar 105
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday evening, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the SES 11/EchoStar 105 communications satellite into orbit 36 minutes later. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is poised for launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:53 p.m.…
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Photos: Previously-flown Falcon 9 booster poised for launch
A Falcon 9 rocket powered by a reused first stage booster rolled out Tuesday to pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a day before its scheduled liftoff with an Airbus-built communications satellite designed for television broadcasts over the Americas. Liftoff of the SES 11/EchoStar 105 spacecraft is scheduled for 6:53 p.m. EDT…