Tag: Atlas 5
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket and GOES-S weather satellite assembled for launch
Technicians around Cape Canaveral spent the last four weeks assembling a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and preparing a Lockheed Martin-built NOAA weather satellite for liftoff March 1. The photos on this page show the Atlas 5’s first stage, powered by a Russian-made RD-180 engine, being lifted atop a mobile platform inside ULA’s Vertical…
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GOES-S weather observatory hoisted atop Atlas 5 rocket
NOAA’s GOES-S weather satellite. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NOAA’s next geostationary weather satellite, GOES-S, was raised on top of an Atlas 5 launcher Friday at Cape Canaveral in preparation for liftoff March 1 to keep watch over the Pacific Ocean and the Western United States. Fully fueled for a planned 15-year mission in space, the roughly…
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NASA gears up for brisk launch pace, starting with weather satellite
The first stage of the Atlas 5 rocket set to launch NOAA’s GOES-S weather satellite was lifted atop its mobile launch platform Jan. 31 inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center tasked with overseeing launches of scientific satellites and interplanetary probes…
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ULA announces takeover of commercial Atlas 5 launch sales
File photo of an Atlas 5 launch from Cape Canaveral. Credit: ULA United Launch Alliance announced Monday that the company will assume responsibility for commercial marketing and sales for Atlas 5 rocket missions, taking over for a Lockheed Martin division that previously sold Atlas 5 launch services on the commercial market. The change will mean…
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End to government shutdown should limit impact on space operations
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9:15 p.m. EST on Jan. 22 (0215 GMT on Jan. 23) with end to government shutdown. File photo of one of the International Space Station’s solar array wings. Credit: NASA NASA and the U.S. Air Force are expected to return to normal operations Tuesday after lawmakers passed a budget bill Monday…
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End to government shutdown should limit impact on space operations
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9:15 p.m. EST on Jan. 22 (0215 GMT on Jan. 23) with end to government shutdown. File photo of one of the International Space Station’s solar array wings. Credit: NASA NASA and the U.S. Air Force are expected to return to normal operations Tuesday after lawmakers passed a budget bill Monday…
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Photos: Atlas 5 takes off with SBIRS GEO Flight 4
Revisit Friday night’s blastoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SBIRS GEO Flight 4, the fourth in an upgraded line of U.S. Air Force missile detection and warning satellites. The 189-foot-tall Atlas 5, fitted with a solid rocket booster for extra thrust, lifted off at 7:48 p.m. EST Friday…
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U.S. military satellite launched to fortify against missile attacks
An Atlas 5 rocket streaks east from Cape Canaveral with the SBIRS GEO Flight 4 satellite in this long exposure photo. Credit: ULA A billion-dollar U.S. military satellite rode a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket into orbit Friday night from Cape Canaveral, joining a network of space sentinels warning of threatening missile launches from…
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Video: ULA highlights reel from Friday night’s Atlas 5 launch
United Launch Alliance has packed two days of rollout, countdown and launch activities into a two-minute video highlighting Friday night’s blastoff of an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the U.S. Air Force’s SBIRS GEO Flight 4 missile-warning satellite. The 189-foot-tall rocket lifted off at 7:48 p.m. EST Friday (0048 GMT Saturday) from Cape…
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Video: ULA highlights reel from Friday night’s Atlas 5 launch
United Launch Alliance has packed two days of rollout, countdown and launch activities into a two-minute video highlighting Friday night’s blastoff of an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the U.S. Air Force’s SBIRS GEO Flight 4 missile-warning satellite. The 189-foot-tall rocket lifted off at 7:48 p.m. EST Friday (0048 GMT Saturday) from Cape…