Tag: AV-063
-
Photos: Atlas 5 rocket positioned on launch pad for Navy satellite deployment
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was rolled to the pad today at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 in preparation for Friday’s liftoff. The flight will deliver the Mobile User Objective System satellite No. 5 into orbit, fulfilling a five-launch, four-year effort to assemble the military’s secure smartphone mobile communications network. Launch is scheduled for…
-
Preview: Atlas 5 launching MUOS 5 for mobile forces across all branches of U.S. military
MUOS 5 in the factory. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — For the fifth time in four years, a massive U.S. Navy satellite will launch atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Friday to finish the military’s new $7.7 billion mobile communications framework 22,300 miles in space. Liftoff of the United Launch Alliance rocket from Complex…
-
Atlas 5 rocket gains approval to launch again after issue on last flight diagnosed
The Atlas 5 rocket streaks to space on March 22. Credit: Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now CAPE CANAVERAL — United Launch Alliance has granted “flight clearance” for its workhorse Atlas 5 rocket to resume satellite deployments after linking an errant valve with the fuel usage crunch on its most recent mission and tweaking subsequent vehicles. The next…
-
Photos: Navy satellite encapsulated, mated to Atlas 5
The U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System communications satellite No. 5 was encapsulated in the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket’s payload fairing on June 4 at the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida. The 18-foot-diamter shroud covers the satellite during the initial minutes of flight as the 206-foot-tall rocket climbs through the atmosphere. On…
-
New lineup spelled out for upcoming Atlas 5 rocket launches from the Cape
The most recent Atlas 5 arcs to orbit over the next Delta 4-Heavy rocket. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — The revised Atlas 5 rocket firing order includes two national security missions this summer before launching NASA’s daring asteroid sampler mission in September as originally planned. That’s the schedule the United Launch Alliance managers have devised…
-
Mixture ratio valve the culprit in Atlas 5 anomaly, next launch this summer
Photo by ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — With the performance hit on the Atlas 5 rocket’s most recent flight last month now isolated to a faulty valve, preparations to resume the manifest are underway as United Launch Alliance workers stack the next booster for blastoff this summer. The Mixture Ratio Control Valve (MRCV) governing the blend…
-
New target date for next Atlas 5 launch
File photo of Atlas 5 first stage in ASOC. Credit: NASA-KSC CAPE CANAVERAL — As the internal investigation continues into the first stage performance trouble on the last Atlas 5 rocket launch, the next mission on the manifest has slipped to May 27. Originally planned for May 5, the flight of the Navy’s fifth and…
-
MUOS 5 satellite comes to Florida on way to geosynchronous orbit
MUOS No. 5 in the factory before shipment to Cape Canaveral for launch. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — The fifth and final satellite for the U.S. Navy’s new mobile network to provide rugged smartphone communications to all branches of the military has arrived at the launch site for blastoff in May. The Mobile User…