Tag: CubeSats
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Atlas 5 launch caps deployment of ultra-secure military communications network
An Atlas 5 rocket fired off pad 41 at Cape Canaveral at 4:18 p.m. EDT (2018 GMT) Thursday. Credit: United Launch Alliance The sixth and final satellite in the U.S. military’s most secure satellite communications fleet lifted off from Cape Canaveral Thursday aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, extending the network’s expected lifetime…
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Citing coronavirus concerns, Rocket Lab pauses launch operations
This aerial view of Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand earlier this year shows an Electron rocket on one launch pad, and the site’s second launch pad under construction. Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab says it has paused launch operations after the government of New Zealand this week ordered most businesses closed and…
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Space Force’s first launch scheduled for Thursday
The logo of the U.S. Space Force is seen on the Atlas 5 rocket set to carry the AEHF 6 communications satellite into orbit. Credit: United Launch Alliance The first launch of a U.S. Space Force mission since the establishment of the new military service is planned Thursday, when a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s sixth and final 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 2:37 p.m. EDT on March 26.
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket rolls out to launch pad at Cape Canaveral
United Launch Alliance’s next Atlas 5 rocket moved to its launch pad Wednesday at Cape Canaveral, taking position for liftoff with the U.S. military’s sixth and final Advanced Extremely High Frequency secure communications satellite. The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 rocket, fitted with five strap-on solid rocket boosters, completed the third-of-a-mile trip pushed by trackmobiles along…
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Italian maker of Vega rocket says launch remains on track for later this month
The Italian-built Zefiro 23 second stage for the next flight of the European Vega rocket is raised into the mobile gantry on a launch pad at the Guiana Space Center in South America. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron The head of Italian rocket-maker Avio said Thursday that preparations are…
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Final AEHF satellite mated to Atlas 5 launcher at Cape Canaveral
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated March 13 with launch delay to March 26. The base of the Atlas 5 rocket, fitted with five solid rocket boosters, for the launch of the U.S. Space Force’s AEHF 6 satellite. Credit: United Launch Alliance The sixth and final satellite in the U.S. Space Force’s network of secure, jam-resistant AEHF communications satellites…
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After last-minute abort, DARPA Launch Challenge ends without a winner
Astra’s small satellite launcher stands vertical at Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Credit: John Kraus/Astra Astra engineers scrubbed a launch attempt Monday at Kodiak Island, Alaska, to assess troubling data from a guidance, navigation and control sensor on the company’s new small satellite launcher, ending a bid to win up to $12 million…
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Live coverage: Debut flight of Astra’s satellite launcher scrubbed
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of Astra’s Rocket 3.0, also known as “1 of 3,” from Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska in the first of two missions planned through DARPA’s Launch Challenge. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. DARPA plans a live webcast of the final countdown and flight of Astra’s Rocket…
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Fresh out of stealth mode, Astra gearing up for orbital launch from Alaska
Astra employees open the payload fairing last week on the company’s small satellite launcher at Kodiak Island, Alaska, to mate several small payloads ahead of the company’s first orbital launch attempt. Credit: DARPA Some time in the next few days, a California-based company that has quietly toiled to develop a new light-class satellite launcher since…