Tag: AV-088
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Video: Rocketcams show Mars-bound rover’s ride into space
Video credit: United Launch Alliance Cameras mounted on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket show the fiery ride into space for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover after taking off from Florida’s Space Coast. The Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT)…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket catapults into space with Mars rover
Carrying a $2.7 billion NASA mission to Mars, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket took off July 30 from Cape Canaveral and fired into a summer sky powered by four powerful solid rocket boosters and a kerosene-burning main engine. The Atlas 5 blasted off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at…
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Mars 2020 spacecraft resumes normal operations after post-launch safe mode
This illustration from NASA’s “Eyes on the Solar System” app shows the Mars 2020 spacecraft outbound from planet Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission resumed normal operations Friday after cold temperatures forced the spacecraft into safe mode soon after a successful launch from Cape Canaveral. “With safe mode exit, the team is getting…
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NASA’s Perseverance rover leaves Earth bound for Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover lifts off Thursday from Cape Canaveral aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now Persevering through a global pandemic, a last-minute earthquake, and the trials of a rocket launch, NASA’s next Mars rover — named Perseverance — took off from Cape Canaveral Thursday on a nearly…
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Atlas 5 launch timeline on the Mars 2020 mission
This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into space from Cape Canaveral with NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. Launch is scheduled for Thursday during a two-hour window opening at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT). The 197-foot-tall rocket will arc to the southeast from Florida’s Space Coast on its fourth…
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ULA’s Atlas 5 is NASA’s go-to rocket for nuclear-powered space probes
Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, poses with the Atlas 5 rocket that will launch NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky NASA’s Perseverance rover, set for liftoff Thursday on a journey to Mars, posed some unusual challenges for launch crews working with the robot’s plutonium-fueled power generator, but United Launch…
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NASA’s Perseverance rover signals new era in Mars exploration
NASA’s Perseverance rover is lifted during launch preparations at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA JPL/Christian Mangano NASA’s Perseverance rover will depart Cape Canaveral Thursday on a $2.7 billion mission to Mars, carrying with it the first interplanetary aircraft, sophisticated instruments to search for signs of ancient life, and drill to core samples…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket launches with NASA-built Mars rover
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with NASA’s Perseverance rover heading for Mars. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV Broadcast”] [tabby title=”Live view of SLC-41″] [tabbyending] Spaceflight Now members can watch a live view of the pad before the start of NASA TV’s broadcast…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rolled out to launch pad with NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket emerged from its vertical hangar Tuesday for the 1,800-foot journey to pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, moving into position for liftoff Thursday with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Riding a mobile launch platform, the 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 rocket — tail number AV-088 — emerged…
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Good weather predicted for NASA’s Mars rover launch Thursday
The Atlas 5 rocket with NASA’s Perseverance rover on-board stands inside ULA’s Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Credit: United Launch Alliance In the first official weather outlook the planned launch this week of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, meteorologists predict an 80 percent chance of favorable conditions to allow liftoff of…