Tag: Lockheed-Martin
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Weather satellite for the West Coast launched from Cape Canaveral
Credit: United Launch Alliance A weather satellite set to bring new storm tracking capabilities to the western United States and the Pacific Ocean rode into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket Thursday. Kicking off a 15-year service life, the 11,488-pound (5,211-kilogram) robotic weather observer lifted off at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT)…
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Photos: Atlas 5 treks from hangar to launch pad with GOES-S weather satellite
Rolling out on the eve of liftoff with the GOES-S weather satellite, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket journeyed 1,800 feet from its vertical assembly hangar to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Wednesday. Riding a 1.4-million-pound mobile launch platform, the Atlas 5 emerged from the Vertical Integration Facility around 10 a.m. EST (1500…
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Video: Replay of Atlas 5’s launch with GOES-S weather satellite
NOAA’s GOES-S weather satellite, the latest in a series of meteorological observatories dating back to 1975, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket launched at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad, and headed east atop 2.1 million pounds…
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Second of NOAA’s “high-definition” weather satellites ready for launch
Artist’s concept of the GOES-S satellite in orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin The second satellite in a quartet of new NOAA weather observatories is awaiting liftoff Thursday aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, heading for a position 22,000 miles from Earth to scan the western United States and Pacific Ocean for typhoons, wildfires and…
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Atlas 5/GOES-S launch timeline
This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with the GOES-S weather satellite. Launch is scheduled for Thursday during a two-hour window opening at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT). The 197-foot-tall rocket will arc to the east from Florida’s Space Coast on its second…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket and GOES-S weather satellite assembled for launch
Technicians around Cape Canaveral spent the last four weeks assembling a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and preparing a Lockheed Martin-built NOAA weather satellite for liftoff March 1. The photos on this page show the Atlas 5’s first stage, powered by a Russian-made RD-180 engine, being lifted atop a mobile platform inside ULA’s Vertical…
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GOES-S weather observatory hoisted atop Atlas 5 rocket
NOAA’s GOES-S weather satellite. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NOAA’s next geostationary weather satellite, GOES-S, was raised on top of an Atlas 5 launcher Friday at Cape Canaveral in preparation for liftoff March 1 to keep watch over the Pacific Ocean and the Western United States. Fully fueled for a planned 15-year mission in space, the roughly…
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Juno’s latest imagery from Jupiter
This image of Jupiter’s swirling south polar region was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it neared completion of its tenth close flyby of the gas giant planet on Dec. 16, 2017. Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/Gerald Eichstädt NASA’s Juno spacecraft, now on its 11th…
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ULA announces takeover of commercial Atlas 5 launch sales
File photo of an Atlas 5 launch from Cape Canaveral. Credit: ULA United Launch Alliance announced Monday that the company will assume responsibility for commercial marketing and sales for Atlas 5 rocket missions, taking over for a Lockheed Martin division that previously sold Atlas 5 launch services on the commercial market. The change will mean…
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Photos: Atlas 5 takes off with SBIRS GEO Flight 4
Revisit Friday night’s blastoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SBIRS GEO Flight 4, the fourth in an upgraded line of U.S. Air Force missile detection and warning satellites. The 189-foot-tall Atlas 5, fitted with a solid rocket booster for extra thrust, lifted off at 7:48 p.m. EST Friday…