Tag: Atlas 5

  • Atlas 5 slips at payload’s request

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    The last X-37B launch in 2012. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — The next Atlas 5 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral will be delayed two weeks to resolve an undisclosed issue with the payload, United Launch Alliance officials announced Friday. Liftoff is retargeted for no earlier than May 20 from Complex 41. The launch has been…

  • ULA working to reduce five launch pads to two

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    Vandenberg’s SLC-6. Credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now CAPE CANAVERAL — The nation’s existing Atlas and Delta launch sites are vying for a future when United Launch Alliance completes its modernization with a new rocket system and downsizing to one pad on each coast. The rocket operator, a 50-50 joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, currently…

  • Same day rollouts and launches could return to Atlas 5 program

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    Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services CAPE CANAVERAL — Returning to the days of rollouts and launches in a span of only a few hours, the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 program is looking to resume this whirlwind experience. It was a procedure used in the early days of the program a decade ago, moving the…

  • Mysterious mini spaceplane the next Atlas 5 payload

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    Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — With its new homeport in renovated NASA space shuttle hangars off in the distance, the Air Force’s X-37 mini spaceplane will be launched from Cape Canaveral on May 6 for its fourth journey into orbit. The Orbital Test Vehicle will be the primary payload aboard the next United Launch Alliance…

  • Photos: Atlas 5/MMS launch gallery

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    Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC

  • More views of Thursday night’s Atlas 5 launch

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    Spaceflight Now’s readers sent in photos from Thursday night’s launch of four NASA satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, marking a fiery start to a mission probing the fundamental workings of the magnetic bubble shielding Earth from cosmic radiation. The Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad at 10:44 p.m.…

  • Atlas 5 rocket cleared for rollout to launch pad

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    CAPE CANAVERAL — Mission leaders Tuesday gave approval for rollout of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on Wednesday morning, leading to liftoff Thursday night of the Magnetospheric Multiscale science project for NASA. “We have built four, large, identical, very sensitive, spinning spacecraft that we will fly in formation,” said Craig Tooley, the MMS…

  • Preview: Atlas 5 rocket to launch NASA magnetic field study

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    CAPE CANAVERAL — A $1.1 billion science investigation involving four formation-flying satellites circling the Earth, each one identical, fitted with 25-instrument sensors and measuring 94 feet tall by 369 feet wide when fully deployed, will share a single Atlas 5 rocket launch Thursday night from Cape Canaveral to probe explosions in the magnetic field with…

  • Flight Readiness Review passed for next week’s Atlas 5 launch

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    CAPE CANAVERAL — The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and NASA’s four MMS satellite probes passed their Flight Readiness Review today that assessed the progress of work and affirmed plans to launch next Thursday night. There are no major constraints from the FRR and the “go” was given to press ahead with launch week.…

  • Atlas 5 launch pad being prepared for astronaut crews

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    Artist’s concept of an Atlas 5 rocket and CST-100 crew capsule on the launch pad. Credit: United Launch Alliance Work on Boeing’s CST-100 commercial crew capsule will ramp up at the program’s new home base in Florida this year, with construction of a crew access tower at the Atlas 5 rocket’s launch pad underway and…