Tag: AIS
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India’s PSLV poised for launch with 29 satellites
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, fitted with four solid rocket boosters, stands on the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India’s east coast on the Bay of Bengal. Credit: ISRO An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is scheduled for liftoff Sunday night with an intelligence-gathering electronic surveillance satellite and 28 secondary…
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Falcon 9 launch lights up Southern California sky
Take a look back at the Dec. 22 liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a launch that was visible across Southern California and as far away as Arizona as the booster climbed into sunlight at dusk to deliver 10 commercial Iridium communications satellites to orbit. The 229-foot-tall…
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SpaceX launch dazzles, delivering 10 more satellites for Iridium
Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News Putting on a holiday light show for Southern California and much of the desert southwest, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fired into a twilight sky from the Pacific coastline Friday night to add 10 new satellites to Iridium’s upgraded communications network. The two-stage, kerosene-fueled rocket climbed into the rarefied upper…
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Guidance error reportedly led to Russian launch failure
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Dec. 1 with news that Soyuz rocket launches will be permitted to continue as scheduled. Multiple replays of Tuesday’s launch of a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Liftoff occurred at 0541 GMT (12:41 a.m. EST; 2:41 p.m. local time at Vostochny). Russian officials could complete their investigation of a…
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Russian weather satellite and 18 secondary payloads lost after rocket failure
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifts off Tuesday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Credit: Roscosmos A new Russian weather observatory and the first prototype for Telesat’s planned network of 100-plus broadband communications satellites in low Earth orbit were among 19 spacecraft lost after a Fregat rocket stage ran into trouble soon after liftoff aboard…
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Soyuz rocket set for launch from Russia’s new cosmodrome
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket is set for launch at 0541:46 GMT (12:41:46 a.m. EST) Tuesday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Credit: Roscosmos A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to lift off Tuesday from a launch pad in Russia’s Far East with a new Russian weather satellite and 18 secondary payloads from companies and institutions…
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Video: Iridium payload released from Falcon 9 rocket in orbit
Watch a replay from a camera mounted on-board SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as it released one of 10 Iridium Next communications satellites Monday nearly 400 miles above Earth. The rocket carried 10 satellites mounted on a two-tier dispenser atop the Falcon 9 second stage. Once the rocket achieved the planned circular orbit, computers sent commands…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket’s predawn launch from California
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 new satellites for Iridium’s upgraded communications network in low Earth orbit. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Iridium payloads climbed away from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 5:37:01 a.m. PDT…
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SpaceX launch adds another 10 satellites to Iridium Next fleet
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaked into orbit before dawn Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ian Dudley Ten more satellites for Iridium’s upgraded voice and data communications fleet rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into a nearly 400-mile-high orbit from California’s Central Coast Monday. A…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from California, lands in Pacific
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 next-generation Iridium communications satellites. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at approximately 8:22 a.m. EDT (1222 GMT; 5:22 a.m. PDT). Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow…