Tag: Atlas 5
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A month to remember for ULA and the Atlas 5 rocket
Morelos 3, NROL-55, GPS 2F-11. Photos by ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Four weeks, three launches, two coasts. October was an unprecedented month for United Launch Alliance and its venerable workhorse rocket. “Spectacular month, dizzying complexity. So proud of my people. No one matches this tempo, but they do it routinely,” said Tory Bruno, ULA’s president…
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Video: Halloween liftoff of Atlas 5 with GPS 2F-11
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Global Positioning System 2F-11 navigation spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida. See earlier GPS 2F-11 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Recap story: Three Atlas 5 launch successes in one month
CAPE CANAVERAL — Completing an October to remember, the third Atlas 5 rocket launch in just 29 days thundered into space today, this time to replace an aging satellite in the Global Positioning System. Launching a commercial telecommunications satellite for Mexico on Oct. 2, two formation-flying intelligence spacecraft for National Reconnaissance Office on Oct. 8…
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ULA’s Atlas 5 wins contract to launch NASA data relay satellite
File photo of an Atlas 5 launch with the TDRS L satellite in 2014. Credit: ULA The last of NASA’s current-generation tracking and data relay satellites designed to link mission control with the International Space Station has been assigned for launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in October 2017, officials announced Friday.…
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Photos: GPS 2F-11 readied for launch
This collection of photographs shows the Air Force’s Global Positioning System 2F-11 navigation satellite being encapsulated in the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 nose cone and hoisted atop the rocket for flight on Friday. Encapsulation occurred at Cape Canaveral’s Area 59 processing facility for the GPS satellites on Oct. 16. Stacking atop the Atlas occurred…
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Photos: Thursday’s Atlas 5 rollout to launch pad
The Atlas 5 rocket emerges from the Vertical Integration Facility for rollout to Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral in preparation to launch GPS 2F-11 on Friday at 12:17 p.m. EDT. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier GPS 2F-11 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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One year after Antares failure, Orbital ATK nears return to flight
Orbital’s Antares rocket suffers a failure moments after liftoff Oct. 28, 2014, from Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky A year after a launch mishap left Orbital ATK’s Cygnus supply ship without a ride to the International Space Station, company officials say the firm’s cargo delivery system is on the verge of a comeback, thanks…
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Preview: Atlas 5 rocket goes for its third launch of October
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — The penultimate satellite in the current generation of Global Positioning System spacecraft will be deployed Friday, capping a hectic four weeks with three launches from two coasts for the Atlas 5 rocket fleet. The GPS replenishment mission comes on the heels of the Oct. 2 commercial launch of the Mexican…
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Atlas 5/GPS 2F-11 launch timeline
Follow the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad with the U.S. Air Force’s GPS 2F-11 navigation satellite. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 12:17 p.m. EDT (1617 GMT). T+0:00:01.1: Liftoff The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 vehicle, designated AV-060, will lift off and begin a vertical rise away…
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Atlas 5 receives payload for third launch this month
File photo. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Heading to space next week to replace a 12-year-old satellite in the Global Positioning System navigation network, a modernized spacecraft was placed atop its Atlas 5 launcher yesterday. That completes assembly of the 189-foot-tall United Launch Alliance rocket at Cape Canaveral for liftoff of the GPS 2F-11 craft.…