Tag: GPS
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50th Atlas 5 rocket puts up new GPS satellite
Image: United Launch Alliance. CAPE CANAVERAL — Launching for the 50th time, an Atlas 5 rocket flew a milestone mission Wednesday in deploying a Global Positioning System satellite for the worldwide utility. Blasting off exactly on-time at 1:21 p.m. EDT, it marked the 17th consecutive Atlas to have been fueled and launched on a single…
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Video: Atlas 5 Rocket launches with GPS Satellite
The 50th Atlas 5 rocket lifts off From Cape Canaveral carrying a GPS satellite.
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ULA Atlas V successfully launches with GPS IIF-8 satellite
In what is proving to be a dramatic week for space flight, United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket made its fiftieth flight on Wednesday, tasked with orbiting the GPS IIF-8 satellite for the US Air Force. Liftoff from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral was on schedule at the start of an eighteen minute window that opened…
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Atlas 5 rocket rolled to Cape Canaveral launch pad
The 50th Atlas 5 rocket arrives at the launch pad. Photo: United Launch Alliance. An Atlas 5 rocket has been rolled out to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral for blastoff Wednesday to deploy a replacement satellite to strengthen the Global Positioning System for U.S. military forces and the worldwide economy. The United Launch Alliance…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket launches with navigation satellite
Mission Status Center Live coverage of the flight of a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket and the U.S. Air Force’s GPS 2F-8 navigation satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Atlas 5 to fly Wednesday, continuing rapid deployment of GPS satellites
File photo of Atlas 5 in the 401 configuration. Image: ULA. Launching new Global Positioning System navigation satellites at a rate not seen in 21 years, this year’s fourth such deployment is coming up at midday Wednesday by an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral. The United Launch Alliance booster is scheduled for liftoff at…
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GPS modernization continues with quick pace of launches
Artist’s concept of a GPS 2F-series satellite in orbit. Credit: Boeing A new satellite launched Aug. 1 has joined the U.S. Air Force’s GPS navigation network to help guide everything from bombs to road trippers to their destinations, with final preparations on track to send up another GPS spacecraft at the end of October. The…
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ULA Atlas V successfully launches GPS IIF-7 satellite
The third GPS launch of 2014 took place on Friday evening, with the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V lofting the GPS IIF-7 satellite into space. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) was on schedule at 23:23 local time (03:23 UTC Saturday), following a smooth countdown. Atlas V Mission:…
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ULA Delta IV successfully lofts sixth Block IIF GPS satellite
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the US Air Force’s sixth Block IIF GPS satellite atop a Delta IV rocket on Friday. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 37 (SLC-37) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was on at 8:03pm local time, following a 24 hour scrub turnaround due to very poor weather on the…
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ULA Delta IV successfully launches with GPS IIF-5
The US Air Force’s fifth GPS Block IIF navigation satellite was launched on Thursday night. Liftoff, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, via the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket, came at the end of a nineteen-minute window, resulting in a T-0 of 8:59 pm Eastern (01:59 UTC on Friday). The delay…