Tag: Lockheed-Martin
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Photos: Final “single stick” Delta 4 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral
The last Delta 4-Medium rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Thursday with a GPS navigation satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The 207-foot-tall (63-meter) rocket launched from pad 37 at 9:06 a.m. EDT (1306 GMT), powered by a hydrogen-fueled RS-68A main engine and two strap-on solid rocket boosters producing more than 1.2 million pounds of…
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Delta 4 rocket’s launch timeline with GPS 3 SV02
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will deliver the U.S. Air Force’s second GPS 3-series navigation satellite into an elliptical transfer orbit nearly two hours after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff is scheduled during a launch window opening at 9:00:30 a.m. EDT (1300:30 GMT) Thursday. The window extends to 9:27 a.m. EDT (1327 GMT).…
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Five more Delta 4-Heavy flights in ULA backlog after final “single stick” launch
A Delta 4 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral at 9:06 a.m. EDT (1306 GMT) Thursday with a GPS navigation satellite. Credit: United Launch Alliance The last Delta 4 launcher to fly in a single-core configuration rumbled into space Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral with a GPS navigation satellite, leaving United Launch Alliance with five…
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ULA’s second launch of the month scheduled for Thursday
The payload fairing for this week’s Delta 4 launch is stacked on top of the launch vehicle on pad 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: United Launch Alliance Weather forecasters expect a 70 percent chance of favorable conditions at Cape Canaveral for liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket Thursday…
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NASA’s first interplanetary smallsats may struggle to stay under cost caps
Artist’s concept of the Janus mission imaging a binary asteroid. Credit: NASA The first set of proposals for a new class of small robotic probes NASA wants to dispatch across the solar system came in with higher cost estimates than agency officials expected, a NASA manager said Sunday. NASA selected three finalist mission concepts in…
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Mars 2020 rover on track for launch next July
In this image, taken July 19 in the clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, the rover’s 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) arm maneuvers its 88-pound (40-kilogram) sensor-laden turret as it moves from a deployed to a stowed configuration. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The launch of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is less than…
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First moon-bound Orion crew capsule declared complete, major tests remain
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, with the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 1 mission in the background. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Teams working at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida last week connected a U.S.-built Orion crew module with its European-made power and propulsion element for the first time,…
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Final assembly and test milestones on tap for NASA’s first Orion moon ship
The Orion crew module for the Artemis 1 mission, an unpiloted test flight to lunar orbit and back, completed a direct field acoustic test earlier this year inside the Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA The pressurized crew module and European-built service module for NASA’s first Orion…
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Photos: NASA conducts key Orion abort test
The Orion test vehicle lifts off on a converted Peacekeeper booster at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) Tuesday from pad 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by James Rainier NASA simulated an in-flight launch abort of an Orion crew capsule high above Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, in a…
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NASA successfully tests Orion launch abort system before moon flights
Officials hailed an action-packed three-minute test flight Tuesday over Cape Canaveral that exercised the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort rocket, a key safety system on the capsule NASA is developing to carry astronauts back to the moon. “We couldn’t have asked for a better flight, better mission, better performance,” said Don Reed, head of the…