Tag: Atlas 5
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Live coverage: Kennedy Space Center to reopen Friday
Live coverage of Hurricane Dorian’s impacts on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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ULA releases ‘rocketcam’ video from Atlas 5 launch
United Launch Alliance has released views from cameras mounted aboard the company’s most recent Atlas 5 rocket launch showing the rocket’s blastoff from Cape Canaveral at dawn Aug. 8 with a U.S. Air Force communications satellite. The cameras captured spectacular video of the 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad…
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Kennedy Space Center braces for Hurricane Dorian
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Space Launch System’s Mobile Launcher stands on launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This aerial photo was taken June 28 shortly after the tower arrived at pad 39B for a series of ground tests following rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building, seen in…
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Boeing, SpaceX aim for more commercial crew test flights this fall
Technicians at Boeing’s satellite production facility in El Segundo, California, position a CST-100 Starliner inside an environmental test chamber for testing earlier this year. This specific Starliner vehicle will fly on Boeing’s Crew Flight Test, the first Starliner mission with astronauts on-board. Credit: Boeing Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule could take off in October on its…
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Photos: Atlas 5 blasts off with U.S. Air Force communications payload
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 8 with the U.S. Air Force’s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite, the second launch from Florida’s Coast in a span of less than 35 hours. The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 launcher lifted off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral…
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Photos: Atlas 5 paints the sky with spectacular sunrise launch
Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now Skywatchers and early risers across Florida enjoyed dazzling views of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket climbing into space Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral with a U.S. military communications satellite. Flying in its most powerful configuration with five strap-on solid rocket boosters, the Atlas 5 blasted off from…
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Atlas 5 launch adds to U.S. military’s secure communications satellite network
An Atlas 5 rocket lifts off at 6:13 a.m. EDT (1013 GMT) Thursday from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: United Launch Alliance A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fired into space Thursday from Cape Canaveral with a $1.1 billion U.S. Air Force communications satellite, delivering fresh capacity for the…
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Atlas 5 launch timeline on the AEHF 5 mission
A United Launch Atlas 5 rocket is set to launch the U.S. Air Force’s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite from Cape Canaveral. This timeline shows the major mission events planned over a nearly six-hour flight to an optimized geostationary transfer orbit. The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket, propelled by an RD-180 main engine and five…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket rolls out to launch pad 41
Credit: United Launch Alliance Set to fly in its most powerful configuration with five solid rocket boosters, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket rolled out to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Tuesday in preparation for a planned blastoff two days later with a U.S. military communications satellite. The rollout two days before launch…
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Photos: AEHF 5 satellite encapsulated for launch
The U.S. Air Force’s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, designed for secure, jam-resistant communications, is set for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. These photos show the AEHF 5 satellite during encapsulation inside the Atlas 5’s payload shroud. The AEHF 5 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, will join four other satellites…