Tag: navigation
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Chinese navigation system enters new phase with successful launch
A Long March 3C rocket lifted off at 1352 GMT (9:52 a.m. EDT; 9:52 p.m. Beijing time) Monday. Credit: Xinhua China launched a new spacecraft into orbit Monday begin growing the country’s Beidou navigation system into a global service alongside satellite constellations from the United States, Russia and Europe. The fresh Beidou satellite rode into…
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Look back at Friday’s Soyuz launch from the Amazon
Two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation network lifted off at sunset Friday aboard a Soyuz rocket from a tropical launch pad at the edge of South America’s Amazon rainforest. The 15-story Soyuz rocket fired its kerosene-fueled engines and vaulted away from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana at 6:46 p.m. local time (2146 GMT;…
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Indian navigation system gets expansion with PSLV launch
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launched at 1149 GMT (7:49 a.m. EDT) Saturday. Credit: ISRO India’s indigenous space-based navigation network received its fourth satellite after a successful liftoff Saturday aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The 146-foot-tall rocket blasted off at at 1149 GMT (7:49 a.m. EST) Saturday, or 5:19 p.m. local time at the…
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Two new satellites join Europe’s fledgling navigation network
A Soyuz rocket lifts off from French Guiana at 2146 GMT (5:46 p.m. EDT; 6:46 p.m. local time) Friday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin A Soyuz rocket soared into orbit after firing off a launch pad in the Amazon jungle Friday, deploying two satellites nearly 15,000 miles above Earth…
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Managers confident ahead of critical launch for Galileo navigation system
Artist’s concept of two Galileo satellites launching aboard a Soyuz rocket. Credit: ESA–J. Huart, 2014 Confident in technical and procedural fixes implemented since a botched launch in August left two Galileo satellites in the wrong orbit, officials in charge of the European navigation system say Friday’s liftoff of two identical spacecraft on a Soyuz rocket…
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Photos: Galileo navigation satellites added to Soyuz rocket
Twin satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system were raised on top of a Russian-made Soyuz rocket late Tuesday and installed for Friday’s launch from French Guiana to expand the growing network of spacecraft nearly 15,000 miles above Earth. Stacked side-by-side inside the Soyuz rocket’s nose cone, the payloads were rolled out of a clean room…
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Photos: Delta 4 awaits blastoff
The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket sits peacefully inside its mobile service gantry on Tuesday afternoon, one day before its scheduled launch of the GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite. Credit: Justin Ray Credit: Justin Ray Credit: Tim Dodd Credit: Tim Dodd Credit: Tim Dodd
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Preview: 10 months, 4 launches to finish GPS Block 2F deployment
Credit: Boeing CAPE CANAVERAL — The final year of launches in the current breed of Global Positioning System navigation satellites kicks off Wednesday afternoon aboard a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral. GPS 2F-9 is slated for liftoff during a window of 2:36 to 2:54 p.m. EDT and will follow a flight azimuth of…
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Galileo satellite deployment campaign to resume
One of two Galileo satellites is unloaded from an Air France Boeing 747 cargo plane on Thursday after arrival in Cayenne, French Guiana. Credit: ESA/Paul Muller Two Galileo navigation satellites arrived at the Guiana Space Center in South America on Thursday after a trans-Atlantic flight from Paris, as European officials plan the resumption of Galileo…
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Newest GPS satellite goes active
The fourth modernized Global Positioning System satellite launched this year has completed in-orbit testing and joined the constellation. Launched from Cape Canaveral atop a ULA Atlas 5 rocket on Oct. 29, the GPS 2F-8 satellite became an active member of the navigation network last Friday, Boeing announced Thursday. The Boeing-built Block 2F series of a…