Tag: Atlas 5
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Photos: Gantry retracted from Atlas 5
The 8-million-pound mobile service tower is retracted from around the Atlas 5 rocket, revealing the 20-story-tall vehicle for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Credit: James Murati/Bionetics
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 blasts off from California
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on the NROL-35 mission with a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Weather not looking promising for Atlas 5 launch
Rainy weather at the California launch site is forecast to put a damper on plans to fly an Atlas 5 rocket on Thursday evening. Air Force meteorologists are predicting a combination of rain, clouds and even lightning, with a mere 10 percent chance of acceptable liftoff conditions. “A well-developed frontal system will dig into the…
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Orbital picks Atlas 5 to launch next space station cargo run
File photo of an Atlas 5 launch in the “401” configuration, the same version that launch Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus supply ship in late 2015. Credit: ULA Orbital Sciences Corp. announced Tuesday it selected United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket to launch a Cygnus space station resupply mission in late 2015 while the company redesigns its…
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Atlas 5 to sport new upper stage engine Thursday
The NROL-35 mission logo. Credit: NRO The most powerful Atlas rocket to ever fly from the West Coast is poised for launch Thursday to deliver a secret payload into orbit while debuting a new upper stage engine. Lifting off on two million pounds of thrust, the 20-story rocket will fire away from Vandenberg Air Force…
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Atlas/NROL-35 mission stats
This will be… The 633rd launch for Atlas program since 1957 The 294th Atlas launch from Vandenberg AFB since 1959 The 43rd Atlas to use Space Launch Complex 3 The 10th Atlas 5 launch from Vandenberg AFB since 2008 The 222nd mission for the Centaur upper stage The 199th use of Centaur by an Atlas…
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U.S. Navy communications satellite shipped to launch site
The U.S. Navy’s third MUOS communications satellite inside a Lockheed Martin clean room in Sunnyvale, Calif. Credit: Lockheed Martin A massive U.S. Navy satellite to launch from Cape Canaveral in January arrived in Florida on Thursday, kicking off a campaign to ready the mobile communications craft for flight. The Mobile User Objective System No. 3…
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Rocket cameras dazzle on 50th Atlas 5 rocket launch
The first stage separates from the Centaur upper stage. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Onboard video cameras captured critical events during Wednesday’s 50th Atlas 5 rocket launch, beaming back views in stunning clarity of staging and spacecraft separation. The United Launch Alliance booster lifted off at 1:21 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 in…
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50th Atlas 5 rocket puts up new GPS satellite
Image: United Launch Alliance. CAPE CANAVERAL — Launching for the 50th time, an Atlas 5 rocket flew a milestone mission Wednesday in deploying a Global Positioning System satellite for the worldwide utility. Blasting off exactly on-time at 1:21 p.m. EDT, it marked the 17th consecutive Atlas to have been fueled and launched on a single…
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Video: Atlas 5 Rocket launches with GPS Satellite
The 50th Atlas 5 rocket lifts off From Cape Canaveral carrying a GPS satellite.