Tag: Launch

  • Live coverage: ULA launches Atlas 5 rocket with cargo for spysat agency

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. The mission is designated NROL-101. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”ULA Broadcast”] [tabby title=”SFN Live”] [tabbyending] United Launch Alliance’s live launch broadcast begins at 4:53 p.m. EST (2153 GMT) Friday,…

  • New Chinese rocket successful in debut launch

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    Galactic Energy’s Ceres 1 rocket lifts off from the Jiuquan launch base in northwestern China on Saturday. Credit: Xinhua A new four-stage rocket operated by the Chinese launch company Galactic Energy succeeded on its inaugural flight Saturday, delivering a data relay microsatellite to an orbit 300 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth. The Ceres 1 rocket…

  • Ten Satellogic Earth-imaging satellites successfully launched

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    A Long March 6 rocket lifts off Friday from the Taiyuan space center in northeastern China. Credit: Xinhua Ten small high-resolution observation satellites for Satellogic — an Argentine company in the midst of deploying a fleet of Earth-imaging spacecraft — successfully launched Friday on a Chinese Long March 6 rocket. Three small Chinese secondary accompanied…

  • Atlas 5 takes shelter from Tropical Depression Eta

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    Credit: United Launch Alliance With Tropical Depression Eta forecast to restrengthen into a tropical storm and move toward Florida, United Launch Alliance moved an Atlas 5 rocket off its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Friday and delayed liftoff with a U.S. government spy satellite to Wednesday. Riding a mobile launch platform, the 206-foot-tall (63-meter) Atlas…

  • Rocket Lab to attempt booster recovery on next mission

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    File photo of an Electron rocket launching on a previous mission. Credit: Rocket Lab / Andrew Burns / Simon Moffatt On its next mission set for liftoff later this month, Rocket Lab will try to recover the first stage of its Electron small satellite launcher after parachuting into the Pacific Ocean downrange from the company’s…

  • Live coverage: SpaceX launches GPS satellite

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida with the U.S. Air Force’s GPS 3 SV04 navigation satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX mission audio”] [tabbyending] SpaceX’s live video webcast begins around 15 minutes prior…

  • Photos: Atlas 5 rolls to launch pad with new solid rocket boosters

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    A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket with a new type of solid rocket booster emerged from its hangar Tuesday evening for the 1,800-foot rollout to pad 41 at Cape Canaveral, moving into position for liftoff Wednesday with a classified National Reconnaissance Office payload. The 206-foot-tall (63-meter) Atlas 5 rocket departed the Vertical Integration Facility…

  • Atlas 5 rocket, NRO payload return to launch pad after repairs

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    A 206-foot-tall Atlas 5 rocket returned to pad 41 at Cape Canaveral on Tuesday evening after an unplanned rollback to a nearby integration hangar for repairs. Credit: United Launch Alliance Ready for blastoff just after sunset Wednesday with a classified payload for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket…

  • Live coverage: Atlas 5 launch delayed to Nov. 13

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. The mission is designated NROL-101. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. United Launch Alliance’s live launch broadcast begins at 5:38 p.m. EST (2258 GMT) Tuesday, Nov. 3.

  • Good weather expected for twilight Atlas 5 launch Tuesday

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    The NROL-101 mission patch pays tribute to the ‘Lord of the Rings’ stories, with a gold ring and Elvish script that translates to “Goodness Persists.” Credit: National Reconnaissance Office Forecasters predict a 90% chance of good weather for liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral just after sunset Tuesday with…