Tag: navigation
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Preview: Atlas 5 rocket goes for its third launch of October
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — The penultimate satellite in the current generation of Global Positioning System spacecraft will be deployed Friday, capping a hectic four weeks with three launches from two coasts for the Atlas 5 rocket fleet. The GPS replenishment mission comes on the heels of the Oct. 2 commercial launch of the Mexican…
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Atlas 5/GPS 2F-11 launch timeline
Follow the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad with the U.S. Air Force’s GPS 2F-11 navigation satellite. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 12:17 p.m. EDT (1617 GMT). T+0:00:01.1: Liftoff The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 vehicle, designated AV-060, will lift off and begin a vertical rise away…
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Atlas 5 receives payload for third launch this month
File photo. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Heading to space next week to replace a 12-year-old satellite in the Global Positioning System navigation network, a modernized spacecraft was placed atop its Atlas 5 launcher yesterday. That completes assembly of the 189-foot-tall United Launch Alliance rocket at Cape Canaveral for liftoff of the GPS 2F-11 craft.…
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Atlas 5 for third launch this month begins coming together
File photo. ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — With its liftoff just 18 days away to deploy a new Global Positioning System satellite, stacking of the next United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket began today at the vertical assembly building outside Complex 41. It will be the third launch just this month for the Atlas 5 program,…
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20th satellite launched for Chinese navigation fleet
China’s Long March 3B rocket lifted off at 2313 GMT (7:13 p.m. EDT) Tuesday. Credit: Xinhua China added another spacecraft to its growing constellation of Beidou navigation satellites Tuesday with a successful launch by a Long March 3B rocket, according to state media reports. The satellite launched Tuesday is a new-generation design, adding a more…
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Photos: Soyuz blasts off from the jungle
A late-night liftoff Thursday lit up the forested shoreline of South America as a Russian-made Soyuz rocket streaked into orbit with two new satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system. The 15-story rocket launched at 0208:10 GMT Friday (10:08:10 p.m. EDT; 11:08:10 p.m. local time) from the Guiana Space Center, adding the ninth and 10th satellites…
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Launch brings Galileo navigation system into double digits
A Soyuz rocket lifted off from French Guiana at 0208:10 GMT Friday (10:08:10 p.m. EDT) with Europe’s next two Galileo navigation satellites. Credit: ESA–Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015 A Russian rocket released two Galileo navigation satellites nearly 15,000 miles above Earth early Friday, adding to a growing fleet giving Europe an independent space-based positioning system tracking automobiles,…
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Live coverage: Soyuz launches to expand Europe’s navigation system
Video provided by Arianespace Mission Status Center Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with two Galileo navigation satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Photos: Two more Galileo navigation satellites primed for flight
The next pair of spacecraft to join Europe’s Galileo navigation system are positioned for liftoff late Thursday aboard a Soyuz rocket. The photos below show the arrival of the satellites in French Guiana in late July from their factory at OHB System in Bremen, Germany, fueling of the craft by technicians in special hazmat suits,…
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Russian rocket erected for this week’s Galileo launch
Photo credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – G. Barbaste The next pair of spacecraft to join Europe’s growing Galileo navigation system, a civilian-run analog to the U.S. military’s Global Positioning System, will be added to the tip of a Russian Soyuz booster overnight Monday after the rocket’s rollout earlier in the day…