Tag: Atlas 5
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Replay: Atlas 5 launches missile warning satellite
Watch a replay of the launch of an Atlas 5 rocket carrying the $1.2 billion SBIRS GEO Flight 4 satellite into orbit. Video: United Launch Alliance.
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Atlas 5 team scrubs launch to study troublesome valve
Credit: ULA Launch of an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral with a U.S. Air Force infrared surveillance satellite was scrubbed Thursday evening after engineers encountered a balky valve associated with the first stage’s liquid oxygen system. United Launch Alliance, a 50-50 joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, said the problem was narrowed to…
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Atlas 5/SBIRS GEO Flight 4 launch timeline
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated for new launch attempt on Jan. 19. This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with the SBIRS GEO Flight 4 satellite for U.S. military infrared reconnaissance. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 7:48 p.m. EST (0048 GMT Saturday). The Atlas…
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Lawmakers question safety, schedule for Boeing/SpaceX commercial crew ships
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Eric Boe examines hardware during a tour of the SpaceX’s headquarters facility in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX Boeing and SpaceX hope to launch commercial crew ferry ships on long-awaited test flights later this year, but both companies face major challenges getting the spacecraft certified before late 2019…
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Photos: Ground crews roll 75th Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad
The 75th Atlas 5 rocket rolled to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, a day before it was scheduled to lift off with a U.S. Air Force satellite to provide warnings of missile launches that might threaten U.S. territories and allies. The 189-foot-tall United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket rode a mobile launch…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 launches from Cape Canaveral with missile warning satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s SBIRS GEO Flight 4 missile warning satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Launch Alliance’s live video webcast of the Atlas 5 launch will begin at 7:28 p.m. EST on Jan. 19 (0028 GMT on Jan.…
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Rocket and satellite preps on track for next Atlas 5 launch
File photo of an Atlas 5 first stage booster being raised at the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: ULA Final assembly of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket slated to blast off Jan. 18 with a U.S. Air Force surveillance satellite designed to detect missile attacks has begun…
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GOES-S weather satellite arrives in Florida for launch preparations
The GOES-S satellite, seen here inside its shipping container, arrived at its Florida launch base Monday. Credit: NASA/Leif Heimbold NOAA’s latest weather satellite, a new-generation geostationary observatory named GOES-S, landed at the Kennedy Space Center’s former space shuttle runway Monday aboard a U.S. Air Force transport jet, ready to begin final preparations for launch March…
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SpaceX, ULA win NASA contracts to launch Earth observation satellites
NASA has selected a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket (left) and a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket (right) to launch the Sentinel 6A/Jason-CS and Landsat 9 satellites in 2020 and 2021. Credit: SpaceX and ULA NASA has selected SpaceX and United Launch Alliance to deliver to orbit a joint U.S.-European oceanography mission and the next…
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Systima’s pyrovalves make their debut with Atlas 5 launch of NROL-52 spy satellite
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket lofts a payload into space for the NROL-52 mission. (ULA Photo) After more than a week of delays, the National Reconnaissance Office was glad to see its latest spy satellite go into orbit on Sunday — and so was Kirkland, Wash.-based Systima Technologies. When a United Launch Alliance Atlas…