Tag: Boeing
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Eutelsat goes for rare dedicated Ariane 5 launch
Updated with details. Artist’s concept of the Eutelsat 65 West A satellite. Credit: Eutelsat/SSL Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat plans to launch a spacecraft for video broadcasting and broadband connectivity over Latin America aboard a dedicated Ariane 5 rocket in early 2016, several months earlier than planned, on a rare commercial single-payload flight of the workhorse…
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Photos: GPS 2F-11 readied for launch
This collection of photographs shows the Air Force’s Global Positioning System 2F-11 navigation satellite being encapsulated in the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 nose cone and hoisted atop the rocket for flight on Friday. Encapsulation occurred at Cape Canaveral’s Area 59 processing facility for the GPS satellites on Oct. 16. Stacking atop the Atlas occurred…
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Photos: Thursday’s Atlas 5 rollout to launch pad
The Atlas 5 rocket emerges from the Vertical Integration Facility for rollout to Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral in preparation to launch GPS 2F-11 on Friday at 12:17 p.m. EDT. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier GPS 2F-11 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Preview: Atlas 5 rocket goes for its third launch of October
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — The penultimate satellite in the current generation of Global Positioning System spacecraft will be deployed Friday, capping a hectic four weeks with three launches from two coasts for the Atlas 5 rocket fleet. The GPS replenishment mission comes on the heels of the Oct. 2 commercial launch of the Mexican…
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Atlas 5/GPS 2F-11 launch timeline
Follow the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad with the U.S. Air Force’s GPS 2F-11 navigation satellite. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 12:17 p.m. EDT (1617 GMT). T+0:00:01.1: Liftoff The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 vehicle, designated AV-060, will lift off and begin a vertical rise away…
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Atlas 5 receives payload for third launch this month
File photo. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Heading to space next week to replace a 12-year-old satellite in the Global Positioning System navigation network, a modernized spacecraft was placed atop its Atlas 5 launcher yesterday. That completes assembly of the 189-foot-tall United Launch Alliance rocket at Cape Canaveral for liftoff of the GPS 2F-11 craft.…
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Atlas 5 for third launch this month begins coming together
File photo. ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — With its liftoff just 18 days away to deploy a new Global Positioning System satellite, stacking of the next United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket began today at the vertical assembly building outside Complex 41. It will be the third launch just this month for the Atlas 5 program,…
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Looking to improve air travel, Boeing donates $7.5M to establish new data analytics lab at Carnegie Mellon
Big data is changing nearly every industry, from agriculture to automobiles. Now, Boeing is placing a big bet to improve the aerospace industry through the use of data, announcing that it has donated $7.5 million to establish the Boeing/Carnegie Mellon Aerospace Data Analytics Lab in Pittsburgh. The new lab is designed to tap the university’s expertise…
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Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 rocket with Mexico’s Morelos 3
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching Mexico’s Morelos 3 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida. See earlier Morelos 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Predawn launch of Atlas 5
A collection of liftoff photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the Morelos 3 communications satellite for Mexico. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier Morelos 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.