Tag: Delta 4 Heavy
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Launch of solar probe scrubbed by technical issue in terminal countdown
Credit: NASA/Spaceflight Now An automatic alarm in the final two minutes of the Delta 4-Heavy rocket’s countdown early Saturday forced officials to delay blastoff with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe by 24 hours. NASA and United Launch Alliance — the builder of the Delta 4-Heavy — rescheduled the launch of the $1.5 billion solar probe for…
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Photos: Delta 4-Heavy revealed for solar probe launch
Credit: Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now These photos taken Friday evening show the mobile gantry being wheeled away from a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral, hours before its scheduled blastoff with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. The rollback of the Mobile Service Tower at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37B launch pad occurred shortly after 7…
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Delta 4-Heavy launch timeline with Parker Solar Probe
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket, crowned by a solid-fueled upper stage kick motor, will send NASA’s Parker Solar Probe on a speedy voyage through the inner solar system following liftoff from Cape Canaveral. The 233-foot-tall (71-meter) launcher is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37B launch pad powered by three Aerojet Rocketdyne…
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Live coverage: Delta 4-Heavy launches with NASA solar probe
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. NASA TV’s live video webcast begins at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT), and will be available on this page.
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Watch the Parker Solar Probe pre-launch mission briefing
NASA held a pre-launch briefing for the Parker Solar Probe mission on Thursday, August 9, 2018, at the Kennedy Space Center. The participants were: Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator, NASA Science Mission Directorate Nicola Fox, Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist Andrew Driesman, Project Manager, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Omar Baez, Launch Director, NASA Kennedy Space…
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Photos: Parker Solar Probe closed up inside Delta 4 fairing for launch
Ready for a journey into the sun’s enigmatic, scorching corona, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has been encapsulated inside the nose cone of its Delta 4-Heavy rocket for liftoff Saturday. These photos show the solar-powered probe’s enclosure inside the Delta 4 fairing at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida, last month. Ground crews transported…
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Parker Solar Probe cleared for launch to ‘touch the sun’
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. Credit: JHUAPL NASA managers Thursday cleared the $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe for launch early Saturday on a daring mission to “touch the sun,” repeatedly flying through its outer atmosphere to find out why the blazing corona is millions of degrees hotter…
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Solar probe moves into launch position at Cape Canaveral
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Aug. 1 with Tory Bruno comments on Delta 4-Heavy. Nestled inside the nose cone of its Delta 4-Heavy launcher, Parker Solar Probe departs its processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer / kenkremer.com / spaceupclose.com NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, fueled and buttoned up for liftoff Aug. 11 on the first mission…
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Launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe rescheduled for Aug. 6
Parker Solar Probe sits inside a clean room at the Astrotech spacecraft processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman The launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, on the verge of kicking off a seven-year mission culminating in passages through the sun’s atmosphere, has been delayed to Aug. 6 to resolve a technical…
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ULA’s heavy-lifter rolled out for solar probe launch
The Delta 4-Heavy rocket slated to launch NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was lifted vertical on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral on April 17, one day after it rolled to the pad from a nearby horizontal integration hangar. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman Gearing up for a predawn blastoff July 31, launch crews have positioned…