Tag: Boeing
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NASA seeks five concepts for 2022 Mars orbiter and gives go-ahead for 2020 rover
An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter relaying data. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) NASA says it’s selected five aerospace companies, including Boeing, to conduct concept studies for a Mars telecommunications orbiter that’s likely to launch in 2022. It’s also given the formal go-ahead for the final design of its long-planned 2020 Mars rover. In…
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SpaceX sends supplies to space station, lands another Falcon rocket
In this long exposure photo, the Falcon 9 rocket streaks away from the Complex 40 launch pad at left, then its first stage booster returns to landing at right a few miles away. Credit: SpaceX Rising into a midnight sky lit by the full moon, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral…
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Last shuttle commander ‘back in the fight’ with Boeing
When Chris Ferguson climbed into the commander’s seat of the shuttle Atlantis five years ago Friday for the spaceship’s final flight, he didn’t know what turn his career would take when he returned to Earth. Like many space shuttle workers, Ferguson had to decide what to do next. Atlantis’ final flight, which lifted off July…
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5G or not 5G? Boeing joins the battle over broadband satellite spectrum
An artist’s conception shows a constellation of satellites in orbit. (Credit: OneWeb) The Boeing Co. is laying out plans to put more than 1,000 satellites into low Earth orbit to provide broadband internet service – and it wants to make sure the Federal Communications Commission preserves the spectrum they’d use. Boeing thus joins a debate…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket lofts satellites for Eutelsat and ABS
A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off into a brilliant morning sky over the Sunshine State on Wednesday, and these photos show the kerosene-fueled launcher climbing away from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. The two-stage rocket launched at 10:29 a.m. EDT (1429 GMT) Wednesday and turned east to inject the Eutelsat 117 West B and…
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Live coverage: Two telecom satellites launched by Falcon 9, booster recovery fails
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the ABS 2A and Eutelsat 117 West B communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at approximately 10:09 a.m. EDT (1409 GMT).
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Video: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on dual-satellite delivery mission
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Wednesday at 10:29 a.m. EDT (1429 GMT), launching with two Boeing-built communications satellites for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite. The 229-foot-tall launcher took off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad on its 26th flight, and its sixth mission in 2016. Nine kerosene-fueled Merlin 1D engines powered the rocket…
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SpaceX successfully fires satellites into orbit, but loses booster on landing
In this view from the Vehicle Assembly Building roof at the Kennedy Space Center, a Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 10:29 a.m. EDT (1429 GMT) with the Eutelsat 117 West B and ABS 2A communications satellites. Two pioneering communications satellites purely powered by plasma rocket thrusters lifted off from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon…
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Mission events timeline for Falcon 9’s launch for ABS and Eutelsat
Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent into space from Cape Canaveral with the ABS 2A and Eutelsat 117 West B communications satellites. Launch is set for 10:29 a.m. EDT (1429 GMT) on June 15 from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. The satellites will be deployed in a supersynchronous transfer orbit,…
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SpaceX conducts static fire test for Wednesday’s Falcon 9 flight
The ABS 2A and Eutelsat 117 West B satellites will launch in a tandem stack configuration patented by Boeing. Credit: SpaceX Technicians planned to attach two Boeing-built communications satellites to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Monday, a day after launch controllers fueled the booster and fired its nine Merlin first stage engines in a key…