Tag: Boeing
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Recap story: New bird flies for GPS navigation network
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Climbing away from Earth on the power of its liquid hydrogen-fueled main engine and twin solid rockets, a Delta 4 booster successfully launched a new Global Positioning System satellite Wednesday to benefit U.S. military operations and civilian society as a whole. “This thing called GPS is such a treasure to…
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Photos: Delta 4’s foggy launch
The 721,000-pound United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket launches on-time at 2:36 p.m. EDT into a deck of low-hanging clouds over Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite. Credit: Tim Dodd Photography
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Photos: Delta 4 awaits blastoff
The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket sits peacefully inside its mobile service gantry on Tuesday afternoon, one day before its scheduled launch of the GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite. Credit: Justin Ray Credit: Justin Ray Credit: Tim Dodd Credit: Tim Dodd Credit: Tim Dodd
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Preview: 10 months, 4 launches to finish GPS Block 2F deployment
Credit: Boeing CAPE CANAVERAL — The final year of launches in the current breed of Global Positioning System navigation satellites kicks off Wednesday afternoon aboard a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral. GPS 2F-9 is slated for liftoff during a window of 2:36 to 2:54 p.m. EDT and will follow a flight azimuth of…
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Photos: Next GPS satellite readied for launch
The U.S. Air Force’s ninth Global Positioning System (GPS) 2F satellite, GPS 2F-9, is encapsulated in the Delta 4 rocket’s four-meter-diameter nose cone at a processing facility and then moved to the launch pad at Complex 37 for mating to its booster inside the mobile service tower. Launch is March 25 at 2:36 p.m. EDT…
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Innovative satellites begin maneuvers with all-electric thrusters
Artist’s concept of the Eutelsat 115 West B satellite. Credit: Boeing Two ion-driven communications satellites launched from Cape Canaveral on March 1 have begun novel maneuvers using electric propulsion to reach operating posts 22,300 miles over the equator. The Boeing-built satellites will need at least six months slowly climb in altitude and adjust their orbital…
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Commercial crew demo missions manifested for Dragon 2 and CST-100
Mission planners at NASA have installed four Commercial Crew demonstration missions into the International Space Station (ISS) manifest. Both SpaceX’s Dragon 2 (V2) and Boeing’s CST-100 will conduct uncrewed and crewed qualification missions – beginning as early as December, 2016 – prior to the awarding of the US Crew Vehicle -1 (USCV-1) mission for NASA.…
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Reader-submitted shots of Falcon 9 launch
Spaceflight Now readers sent in photos of Sunday’s blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, which lit up a late-night moonlit sky over Florida’s Space Coast on the way to orbit with two communications satellites. We present a selection of the reader-submitted snapshots. Photo credit: David Hash (@turndownformars) Photo credit: David Hash…
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Plasma-driven satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
Two communications satellites blasted off Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, kicking off more than a half-year of novel maneuvers in orbit using plasma drive engines to position the spacecraft 22,300 miles above Earth and link the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Loaded with payloads for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite, the…
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Photos: Falcon takes flight
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off Sunday with a dual-satellite payload destined for geosynchronous orbits 22,300 miles above the Earth. Photo credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images