Tag: AV-063
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Navy satellite claws its way to usable orbit after main engine failure
CAPE CANAVERAL — After four months of drama in space caused by a crippling failure of its main engine, a U.S. Navy’s mobile communications satellite has successfully rescued itself and achieved a usable orbit. The Mobile User Objective System satellite No. 5, launched from Cape Canaveral on June 24 atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas…
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Missile warning satellite launch slips into 2017 due to thruster concerns
CAPE CANAVERAL — An Air Force missile detection spacecraft will, effectively, lose its position in the Atlas 5 rocket’s cramped manifest over the next few months after the flight-worthiness of a thruster on the satellite was called into question and delayed its Oct. 3 liftoff date. The third Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous satellite, or…
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Navy looks for Plan B to salvage its newest communications satellite
A rocketcam view of MUOS No. 5 separating from the Centaur upper stage. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — The U.S. Navy has declared the primary orbit-raising system aboard its new MUOS No. 5 communications satellite failed, leaving controllers scrambling to design a rescue plan. The final Mobile User Objective System satellite was launched into a…
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Navy’s new MUOS 5 communications satellite experiences snag in space
MUOS 5 in the factory. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — Trouble has befallen the U.S. Navy’s new communications satellite that was launched from Cape Canaveral two weeks ago, suspending orbit raising maneuvers and leaving the craft half-way between its rocket deployment orbit and a circular geosynchronous orbit. The $340 million Mobile User Objective System…
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Friday’s Atlas 5 launch as seen from the air, land and rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL — Perspectives of Friday’s United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight were snapped from a commercial airliner, a satellite observer in Australia and the booster itself. I flew by a rocket taking off pic.twitter.com/VDqkVfPej8 — Ryan Kennedy (@Imagineer6) June 24, 2016 Passenger Ryan Kennedy had a window seat aboard the south-bound Southwest Airlines…
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Photos: Atlas 5 launches MUOS 5
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully flies to orbit Friday to deliver the U.S. Navy’s fifth Mobile User Objective System communications satellite. Photos by Patrick Corkery / Lockheed Martin Space Systems See earlier MUOS 5 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Navy satellite sails to orbit atop Atlas 5 rocket for communications grid
CAPE CANAVERAL — And then there were five. The constellation-building Atlas 5 rocket from United Launch Alliance successfully deployed the fifth communications spacecraft for the Navy’s Mobile User Objective System today to form a new rugged smartphone network for the U.S. military. “MUOS is a revolutionary system in its infancy,” said Navy Commander Peter Sheehy,…
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Photos: Atlas 5 fulfills MUOS launch series with fifth successful launch
Launching the U.S. Navy’s fifth MUOS mobile communications satellite, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thundered away from Cape Canaveral today. Photos by Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now See earlier MUOS 5 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Most powerful Atlas 5 puts 15,000-pound satellite in orbit
With five side-mounted solid rocket boosters for added power, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully deployed the U.S. Navy’s fifth MUOS mobile communications satellite. Photos by United Launch Alliance See earlier MUOS 5 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Atlas 5 on the pad at sunset
The night before its planned flight coupled the photogenic United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and a gorgeous sunset at Cape Canaveral. Photos by United Launch Alliance See earlier MUOS 5 coverage. Our Atlas archive.