Tag: Atlas 5
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MUOS 5 satellite comes to Florida on way to geosynchronous orbit
MUOS No. 5 in the factory before shipment to Cape Canaveral for launch. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — The fifth and final satellite for the U.S. Navy’s new mobile network to provide rugged smartphone communications to all branches of the military has arrived at the launch site for blastoff in May. The Mobile User…
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InSight Mars lander escapes cancellation, aims for 2018 launch
The InSight lander in its cruise stage configuration prior to undergoing acoustic testing at Lockheed Martin. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin The InSight Mars lander has won a reprieve from NASA’s top managers after persistent problems with one of the probe’s science instruments caused the mission to miss a narrow launch window planned for this month. The…
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Photos: Cygnus packed up and fueled for trip to the space station
The International Space Station cargo ship launching from Cape Canaveral on March 22 has been given a name — the SS Rick Husband. Orbital ATK, in keeping with its five previous commercial freighters named after astronauts who have passed away, has christened the latest craft for the commander of shuttle Columbia’s ill-fated 2003 mission that…
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ULA’s candidates to replace RD-180 engine win Air Force funding
File photo of a hotfire test using components of Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine. Credit: Blue Origin The Pentagon has awarded at least $162 million in contracts to Aerojet Rocketdyne and United Launch Alliance for development work on the AR1 and BE-4 rocket engines, candidates to power the first stage of a next-generation rocket and replace…
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Fate of NASA’s InSight Mars mission to be decided soon
Updated March 7. The back shell of the InSight spacecraft is lowered onto the lander in a clean room at Lockheed Martin. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin NASA is close to deciding whether to spend an extra $150 million to send the InSight lander to Mars in 2018 or cancel the mission after an instrument problem made…
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U.S. resupply ship headed for space station to launch March 22
OA-6 patch. Credit: Orbital ATK CAPE CANAVERAL — Signs that a launch to the International Space Station is approaching are obvious this week at Cape Canaveral, with the Atlas 5 booster rocket beginning to take shape and the commercial resupply ship heading to its propellant depot. Assembly of the Atlas started this morning at the…
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Videos: Atlas 5 caps a generation of GPS launches
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Global Positioning System 2F-12 satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, completing 27 years and 61 flights of the GPS 2 generation. See earlier GPS 2F-12 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Recap story: Last GPS satellite of its generation arrives in space
CAPE CANAVERAL — The main engine rumbling to life. Ice shards breaking free. The rocket lumbering off the pad. The battle against gravity being won once again. That was the scene at 8:38 a.m. EST (1338 GMT) Friday morning as the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 booster took flight to cap a generation of Global…
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Photos: Atlas 5 launches navigation craft from Cape Canaveral
A collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the GPS 2F-12 satellite for use by the U.S. military and billions of civilians around the world. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier GPS 2F-12 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Atlas 5 rolls out for Friday launch to GPS constellation
The Atlas 5 rocket emerges from the Vertical Integration Facility for rollout to Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral in preparation to launch GPS 2F-12 satellite on Friday at 8:38 a.m. EST. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier GPS 2F-12 coverage. Our Atlas archive.