Tag: Complex 41
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 launches from Cape Canaveral with missile warning satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s SBIRS GEO Flight 4 missile warning satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Launch Alliance’s live video webcast of the Atlas 5 launch will begin at 7:28 p.m. EST on Jan. 19 (0028 GMT on Jan.…
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Rocket and satellite preps on track for next Atlas 5 launch
File photo of an Atlas 5 first stage booster being raised at the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: ULA Final assembly of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket slated to blast off Jan. 18 with a U.S. Air Force surveillance satellite designed to detect missile attacks has begun…
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Launch operators expect minimal delays from Hurricane Irma
A construction trailer at the Turn Basin near KSC’s Vehicle Assembly Building was turned over during Hurricane Irma. Credit: NASA/Bill White SpaceX and United Launch Alliance expect to resume launches with little or no delay after Hurricane Irma veered west of Cape Canaveral last weekend, sparing the launch base from the storm’s most extreme damage.…
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Quick work saved the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission from nearby explosion
Smoke pours off Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad shortly after a Sept. 1 explosion. Credit: U.S. Air Force Engineers scrambled to keep NASA’s billion-dollar asteroid-bound OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on track for its launch last week in the aftermath of an explosion a mile away at SpaceX’s launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Quick action by safety…
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Video: Gantry swing arm arrives at Atlas 5 pad for astronauts to board Starliners
Constructing the launch pad infrastructure for astronauts to board Boeing’s Starliner crew capsules atop United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets, workers delivered the Crew Access Arm with its White Room to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 on Thursday, Aug. 11. It was built in Oak Hill, just north of the Kennedy Space Center. The 42-foot-long swing…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rolls out for launch
The Atlas 5 rocket emerges from the Vertical Integration Facility for rollout to Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral in preparation to launch Morelos 3 on Friday at 6:08 a.m. EDT. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier Morelos 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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ULA working to reduce five launch pads to two
Vandenberg’s SLC-6. Credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now CAPE CANAVERAL — The nation’s existing Atlas and Delta launch sites are vying for a future when United Launch Alliance completes its modernization with a new rocket system and downsizing to one pad on each coast. The rocket operator, a 50-50 joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, currently…
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Same day rollouts and launches could return to Atlas 5 program
Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services CAPE CANAVERAL — Returning to the days of rollouts and launches in a span of only a few hours, the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 program is looking to resume this whirlwind experience. It was a procedure used in the early days of the program a decade ago, moving the…
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Mysterious mini spaceplane the next Atlas 5 payload
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — With its new homeport in renovated NASA space shuttle hangars off in the distance, the Air Force’s X-37 mini spaceplane will be launched from Cape Canaveral on May 6 for its fourth journey into orbit. The Orbital Test Vehicle will be the primary payload aboard the next United Launch Alliance…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rollout
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was rolled out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 on Wednesday morning, emerging from the Vertical Integration Facility assembly hangar where the two-stage rocket was put together. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani