Tag: Boeing
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Photos: X-37B gallery archive
This is a collection of images taken during the three previous flights of the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mini space shuttle. Photo credit: Air Force, Boeing and United Launch Alliance
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Mexico plots way forward after loss of satellite
Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, Mexico’s minister of communications and transportation, speaks at a press conference after Saturday’s launch failure. Jim Kramer (center), ILS vice president of sales and marketing, and Boeing Satellite Systems president Mark Spiwak (right) also spoke after the mishap. Credit: Mexico SCT The Mexican government says it will collect a $390 million insurance…
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Videos: Launch and landing archive of X-37B mini space shuttle
The fourth flight of the Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is scheduled for launch atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Wednesday from Cape Canaveral. Let’s take a look back at the three previous missions in these video clips: OTV 1 Launch on April 22, 2010: Landing on Dec. 3 2010: OTV 2 Launch on…
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Proton crash deals another blow to Russian space sector
The Proton rocket lifted off at 0547 GMT (1:47 a.m. EDT; 11:47 a.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but ran into trouble about eight minutes later. Credit: ILS TV/Spaceflight Now Failure struck Russia’s troubled space program for the second time in three weeks Saturday, when a Proton rocket carrying a high-tech satellite…
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Proton rocket ready to loft Mexican telecom satellite
A Russian Proton rocket is ready for launch at 0547 GMT (1:47 a.m. EDT) Saturday. Credit: Khrunichev A Boeing-built communications satellite for the Mexican government is set for liftoff Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Proton rocket. The Mexsat 1 satellite is cocooned inside the nose fairing of the 191-foot-tall Proton…
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Photos: Atlas 5 and X-37B mated together for upcoming launch
CAPE CANAVERAL — The Air Force’s miniature space shuttle and its ride to orbit have been joined together inside an assembly building at Cape Canaveral in preparation for launch May 20. The X-37B spaceplane will be boosted into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, flying in its 501 varient with a big…
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NASA gives more information on its experiment aboard the X-37B
CAPE CANAVERAL — In addition to carrying an Air Force electric propulsion thruster test, a materials research investigation sponsored by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will be flying aboard the X-37B miniature spaceplane later this month. Liftoff is targeted for May 20 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force…
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Mexican satellite launch grounded for engineering review
File photo of a Proton rocket on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan before a previous mission. Credit: Khrunichev The launch of a Boeing-built Mexican communications satellite on a Proton rocket has been postponed after engineers discovered an anomaly on a similar spacecraft. The Proton rocket was supposed to blast off Tuesday…
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New details emerge about electric propulsion experiment aboard X-37B
Credit: Air Force CAPE CANAVERAL — All systems are now “go” for launch of the Air Force’s X-37B mystery spaceplane on May 20 from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas 5 rocket. Officials had delayed the X-37B launch by two weeks — from May 6 to no earlier than May 20 — due to an undisclosed…
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Fourth X-37B flight a month away from launching
File photo. Credit: Air Force CAPE CANAVERAL — The U.S. Air Force on Friday made its first public confirmation that the X-37B unmanned space shuttle will be launched next month on the fourth flight of an Orbital Test Vehicle. “We are excited about our fourth X-37B mission,” said Randy Walden, the director of the Air…