Tag: AV-058
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Video released from Atlas 5 rocket launch of cubesat flock
Remarkable rocketcam video footage of the Oct. 8 flight a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from California has been released to show its hitchhiker cubesat payloads shooting into orbit. The mission blasted off before dawn from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the classified NROL-55 flight for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The video begins…
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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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Photos: Gantry retracted from Atlas 5 rocket
The 8-million-pound mobile service tower is retracted from around the Atlas 5 rocket, revealing the 19-story-tall vehicle for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on NROL-55. Photos: United Launch Alliance Rollback of NROL-55 Vandenberg AFB Rollback of NROL-55 Vandenberg AFB Rollback of NROL-55 Vandenberg AFB Rollback of NROL-55 Vandenberg AFB Rollback of NROL-55 Vandenberg…
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Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 on NROL-55
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the classified NROL-55 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. See earlier NROL-55 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Second Atlas 5 rocket launched in span of six days
CAPE CANAVERAL — Churning out the launches at a rapid pace, the Atlas 5 program sent another rocket soaring like clockwork today for deployment of a national security satellite duo from California. Blasting off precisely on-time at 5:49:30 a.m. local (8:49:30 a.m. EDT; 1249:30 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, it was the seventh Atlas…
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Photos: California’s predawn liftoff of Atlas 5 rocket
Making its second launch in just six days, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight blasted off Thursday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Photo Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News See earlier NROL-55 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket soars from West Coast
A collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight carrying the NROL-55 cargo for the National Reconnaissance Office. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier NROL-55 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Intel-gathering spacecraft launch on Atlas 5 scheduled for Thursday
Mission poster. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Poised for its one and only satellite launch of the year, the National Reconnaissance Office will conduct a hush-hush flight Thursday, Oct. 8 using a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from California. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 3-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base is targeted for 5:49…
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Photos: NROL-55 payload joins Atlas booster rocket for launch
This photo gallery shows the classified National Reconnaissance Office payload, already encapsulated in the 14-foot-diameter nose cone, being lifted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 3-East pad. Launch of NROL-55 is planned for the morning of Oct. 8. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance Our Atlas archive.