Tag: Heliophysics

These images from United Launch Alliance and NASA photographers recorded the liftoff of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 12 with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. The heavy-duty rocket, standing 233 feet (71 meters) tall, climbed away from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37B launch pad at 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT) Sunday, a day…

Video credit: United Launch Alliance This video released by United Launch Alliance shows the Delta 4-Heavy rocket’s predawn liftoff Aug. 12 from the perspective of a downward-facing camera, capturing dazzling views of the fiery takeoff and the dramatic separation of the launcher’s two hydrogen-fueled boosters. The 233-foot-tall (71-meter) Delta 4-Heavy rocket took off from Cape…

Watch a video replay of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe lifting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 37 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy on August 12, 2018.

Driven by three RS-68A main engines, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifted off early Sunday from Cape Canaveral carrying NASA’s Parker Solar Probe on a historic mission to study the sun. The heavy-duty rocket, standing 233 feet (71 meters) tall, climbed away from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37B launch pad at 3:31 a.m. EDT…

A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket takes off at 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT) Sunday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Running a day late, a United Launch Alliance heavy-lift Delta 4 rocket thundered away from Cape Canaveral early Sunday, boosting NASA’s $1.5 billion Parker…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…