Tag: Atlas 5
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U.S. Air Force divides new launch contracts between SpaceX, ULA
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket launch. Credit: United Launch Alliance SpaceX and United Launch Alliance have split up to $645 million in new contracts to deploy U.S. Air Force navigation and surveillance satellites into orbit from 2019 through 2021. A Falcon 9 rocket built and operated by SpaceX will launch the Air Force’s…
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New NOAA weather satellite reaches geostationary orbit
Artist’s concept of the GOES-17 satellite in orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin Less than two weeks after its launch from Cape Canaveral, a new NOAA weather observatory has boosted itself into a circular orbit more than 22,000 miles over the equator, and officials have renamed it GOES-17 ahead of a test series before it enters service…
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Photos: Atlas 5 blasts off with GOES-S weather satellite
NOAA’s newest weather satellite, heading for a perch with coverage over the western United States and the Pacific Ocean, launched March 1 from Cape Canaveral on top of an Atlas 5 rocket. The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket, built by United Launch Alliance, lifted off at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) on March 1 from Cape Canaveral’s…
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InSight lander flown to California for final launch preps
NASA’s InSight spacecraft, seen here in its launch configuration shortly after arriving at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, is set for launch May 5. Credit: Lockheed Martin NASA’s robotic InSight Mars lander arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California this week aboard a U.S. Air Force cargo plane, ready for final testing, fueling and…
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Weather satellite for the West Coast launched from Cape Canaveral
Credit: United Launch Alliance A weather satellite set to bring new storm tracking capabilities to the western United States and the Pacific Ocean rode into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket Thursday. Kicking off a 15-year service life, the 11,488-pound (5,211-kilogram) robotic weather observer lifted off at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT)…
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Photos: Atlas 5 treks from hangar to launch pad with GOES-S weather satellite
Rolling out on the eve of liftoff with the GOES-S weather satellite, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket journeyed 1,800 feet from its vertical assembly hangar to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Wednesday. Riding a 1.4-million-pound mobile launch platform, the Atlas 5 emerged from the Vertical Integration Facility around 10 a.m. EST (1500…
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Video: Replay of Atlas 5’s launch with GOES-S weather satellite
NOAA’s GOES-S weather satellite, the latest in a series of meteorological observatories dating back to 1975, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket launched at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad, and headed east atop 2.1 million pounds…
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Second of NOAA’s “high-definition” weather satellites ready for launch
Artist’s concept of the GOES-S satellite in orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin The second satellite in a quartet of new NOAA weather observatories is awaiting liftoff Thursday aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, heading for a position 22,000 miles from Earth to scan the western United States and Pacific Ocean for typhoons, wildfires and…
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Atlas 5/GOES-S launch timeline
This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with the GOES-S weather satellite. Launch is scheduled for Thursday during a two-hour window opening at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT). The 197-foot-tall rocket will arc to the east from Florida’s Space Coast on its second…
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Atlas 5 launch on track for Thursday, SpaceX mission expected to slip
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT), 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT), 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) and 8:30 p.m. EST Tuesday (0130 GMT Wednesday). File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is set to roll to…