Tag: Complex 41
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Photos: AEHF 5 satellite encapsulated for launch
The U.S. Air Force’s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, designed for secure, jam-resistant communications, is set for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. These photos show the AEHF 5 satellite during encapsulation inside the Atlas 5’s payload shroud. The AEHF 5 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, will join four other satellites…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ULA’s live video coverage of the Atlas 5 launch will begin at 5:24 a.m. EDT on Aug. 8. Spaceflight Now members can watch…
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ULA delays Atlas 5 launch to August
File photo of an Atlas 5 launch last year carrying the U.S. Air Force’s fourth Advanced EHF communications satellite. The next Atlas 5 flight, now set for no earlier than Aug. 8, will loft the fifth AEHF relay satellite for the Air Force. Credit: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance is pushing back its next…
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Next Atlas 5 launch delayed by battery failure
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated June 28 with new target launch date of July 17. The Atlas 5’s payload fairing, containing the Air Force’s AEHF 5 communications satellite, was transferred to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad June 15. Credit: United Launch Alliance The next launch of United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s…
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ULA begins stacking Atlas 5 rocket for late June launch
The first stage of ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket arrives at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Friday. Credit: United Launch Alliance The bronze first stage of United Launch Alliance’s next Atlas 5 rocket arrived at its Cape Canaveral launch pad Friday, where it will be joined by five solid-fueled boosters, a Centaur upper stage and…
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Boeing delays first Starliner test flight to August, NASA extends duration of first crew mission
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated April 3 with NASA’s confirmation of an extension to the duration of the Crew Flight Test and SpaceX statement on Crew Dragon schedule. This image shows one of three Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew capsules during an environmental test campaign in El Segundo, California, that exposed the spacecraft to the thermal, acoustic and electromagnetic…
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SpaceX files protest of NASA’s Lucy launch contract awarded to ULA
File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket inside the company’s hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett SpaceX has filed a protest challenging a nearly $150 million NASA contract awarded to United Launch Alliance last month to send a robotic asteroid probe into space. The protest submitted to the Government…
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ULA wins contract to launch NASA’s Lucy mission to visit unexplored asteroids
File photo of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5-401 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Credit: United Launch Alliance NASA has selected United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket to dispatch the Lucy spacecraft on a mission from Cape Canaveral in October 2021 to fly by seven unexplored asteroids, including six objects locked in orbits leading…
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ULA wins contract to launch NASA’s Lucy mission to visit unexplored asteroids
File photo of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5-401 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Credit: United Launch Alliance NASA has selected United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket to dispatch the Lucy spacecraft on a mission from Cape Canaveral in October 2021 to fly by seven unexplored asteroids, including six objects locked in orbits leading…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket lifts off with Air Force’s AEHF 4 satellite
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fired into the night sky over Cape Canaveral just after midnight Wednesday, carrying the U.S. Air Force’s fourth AEHF communications satellite designed to enable secure voice, video and data links between U.S. and allied forces. The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad…