Tag: Atlas 5
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Atlas 5 rocket, U.S. Air Force satellite arrive at Cape Canaveral for June launch
The first stage of ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket is unloaded from the Mariner transport ship after arriving at Cape Canaveral on April 21. Credit: United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket hardware and a U.S. Air Force communications satellite have arrived at Cape Canaveral for United Launch Alliance’s next mission, scheduled for liftoff June 27. The…
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Boeing delays first Starliner test flight to August, NASA extends duration of first crew mission
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated April 3 with NASA’s confirmation of an extension to the duration of the Crew Flight Test and SpaceX statement on Crew Dragon schedule. This image shows one of three Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew capsules during an environmental test campaign in El Segundo, California, that exposed the spacecraft to the thermal, acoustic and electromagnetic…
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SpaceX, ULA win military contracts, Air Force renames EELV program
File photo of an Atlas 5-421 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Credit: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance and SpaceX recently won contracts worth $739 million to send six missions into orbit for the U.S. military, and the Air Force has announced a new title for its flagship launcher program, dropping “expendable”…
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SpaceX files protest of NASA’s Lucy launch contract awarded to ULA
File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket inside the company’s hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett SpaceX has filed a protest challenging a nearly $150 million NASA contract awarded to United Launch Alliance last month to send a robotic asteroid probe into space. The protest submitted to the Government…
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First unpiloted test flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule reset for March 2
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX test-fired the Falcon 9 rocket last month that will launch the first Crew Dragon test flight. Credit: SpaceX As expected, NASA announced Wednesday that the first unpiloted test flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon astronaut ferry ship has slipped from later this…
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First unpiloted test flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule reset for March 2
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX test-fired the Falcon 9 rocket last month that will launch the first Crew Dragon test flight. Credit: SpaceX As expected, NASA announced Wednesday that the first unpiloted test flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon astronaut ferry ship has slipped from later this…
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ULA wins contract to launch NASA’s Lucy mission to visit unexplored asteroids
File photo of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5-401 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Credit: United Launch Alliance NASA has selected United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket to dispatch the Lucy spacecraft on a mission from Cape Canaveral in October 2021 to fly by seven unexplored asteroids, including six objects locked in orbits leading…
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ULA wins contract to launch NASA’s Lucy mission to visit unexplored asteroids
File photo of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5-401 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Credit: United Launch Alliance NASA has selected United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket to dispatch the Lucy spacecraft on a mission from Cape Canaveral in October 2021 to fly by seven unexplored asteroids, including six objects locked in orbits leading…
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Boe pulled from commercial crew test flight due to medical issue
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Eric Boe poses as he exits the Boeing crew capsule mock-up at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Eric Boe, one of three astronauts assigned to the first piloted test flight of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner commercial crew ship later this year has…
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Atlas 5 rocket begins arriving in Florida for commercial crew test flight
The dual-engine Centaur upper stage assigned to the first launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is transported from ULA’s Mariner vessel to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday. Credit: NASA/Chris Chamberland The Centaur upper stage destined to send Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule into orbit on its first unpiloted test flight next year has…