Tag: Airbus Defense and Space
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Atlas 5 blasts off with Solar Orbiter
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION An Atlas 5 rocket lifted off at 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday (0403 GMT Monday) with the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Credit: United Launch Alliance Under a brilliant moon, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flashed to life and vaulted away from Cape Canaveral late Sunday, boosting the European…
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Atlas 5/Solar Orbiter launch timeline
This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with the European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft to study the sun. Launch is scheduled 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday (0403 GMT Monday) at the opening of a two-hour launch window. The 189-foot-tall (57.6-meter) rocket will arc to the…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 launches from Cape Canaveral with Solar Orbiter
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission developed in partnership with NASA. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. NASA TV’s live video coverage of the Atlas 5 launch will begin at 10:30 p.m. EST on Feb. 9 (0330 GMT on…
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Successful Soyuz launch deploys 34 satellites for OneWeb network
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated with confirmation of acquisition of signal from all 34 satellites. A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with 34 OneWeb broadband satellites on-board. Credit: Roscosmos BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan — A Russian Soyuz launcher fired into orbit from the remote steppe of Kazakhstan Thursday with 34 satellites built on Florida’s…
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Photos: Soyuz rocket poised for launch with 34 OneWeb satellites
A Russian Soyuz-2.1b booster is standing at the Complex 31 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for liftoff with 34 OneWeb broadband satellites early Friday, local time. The 15-story rocket was cocooned inside clamshell-like gantry arms as VIPs, reporters and photographers visited the pad late Thursday, hours before its scheduled liftoff at 2:42:41…
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First satellites off OneWeb’s new Florida assembly line set for launch this week
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket is set for liftoff with 34 OneWeb satellites from the Complex 31 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos The first 34 satellites manufactured on a new commercial spacecraft assembly line just outside the gates of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are scheduled for liftoff on a Soyuz…
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Soyuz rolls out to launch pad with OneWeb satellites
A Soyuz-2.1b booster loaded with 34 satellites for OneWeb’s global Internet network rolled out of its assembly building Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and rode a rail car to its launch pad for final preflight checks before liftoff Thursday. The Soyuz rocket is set for liftoff at 2142 GMT (4:42 p.m. EST)…
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Decades in the making, Solar Orbiter finally meets launcher at Cape Canaveral
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, cocooned inside the Atlas 5 rocket’s payload shroud, was attached atop the Atlas 5 launcher Friday after an early morning departure from a nearby payload processing facility. Credit: United Launch Alliance The European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft was installed on top of its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 launcher Friday at Cape…
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Solar Orbiter launch delayed to Feb. 7
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket — seen without the Solar Orbiter spacecraft on top — completed a practice countdown at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Friday, Jan. 24. Credit: United Launch Alliance Officials have delayed the launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket with the European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft from…
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Photos: Solar Orbiter encapsulated inside launch shroud
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was encapsulated inside the Atlas 5 rocket’s payload fairing Jan. 20. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky The Airbus-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft has been closed up inside the payload fairing of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in preparation for liftoff from Cape Canaveral in February on a joint mission between the European…