Tag: navigation
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Soyuz/Galileo launch timeline
Follow the key events of the Soyuz rocket’s ascent into orbit from the Guiana Space Center with two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system. A listing of exact times for the flight’s major events is posted below. Data source: Arianespace T-0:00:03: Engines at Full Thrust The five main engines of the Soyuz rocket’s core stage…
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Live coverage: Soyuz launches on 13th flight from French Guiana
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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Soyuz launches two more Galileo satellites
The Soyuz rocket carrying the 11th and 12th satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation program lifted off at 1151:56 GMT (6:51:56 a.m.; 8:51:56 a.m. local time) from French Guiana. ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Two more satellites joined Europe’s Galileo navigation fleet in orbit Thursday after launch from French Guiana aboard…
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Soyuz booster pointed skyward for Galileo launch
One day after a Soyuz crew transport rolled out to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a similar Russian booster made a comparable journey Monday halfway around the world in tropical French Guiana for liftoff Thursday with two European Galileo navigation satellites. Missing its payload and Fregat upper stage, the Soyuz rocket…
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Latest Global Positioning System satellite goes live
Credit: Boeing CAPE CANAVERAL — The newest Global Positioning System replenishment satellite went into operation Tuesday night, five weeks after ascending to space from Cape Canaveral atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. The GPS 2F-11 navigation spacecraft was launched Oct. 31 into a circular orbit 11,000 nautical mile high and tilted 55 degrees…
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ULA sits out Air Force launch competition
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket launch. Credit: ULA United Launch Alliance said Monday it did not submit a proposal in a competition to launch a U.S. Air Force GPS navigation satellite, apparently relinquishing the contract to rival SpaceX, the only other company certified to launch the mission. The Air Force wanted both companies…
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Photos: New GPS navigation satellite powered from Earth
A collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the Global Positioning System 2F-11 navigation satellite. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier GPS 2F-11 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Video: Halloween liftoff of Atlas 5 with GPS 2F-11
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Global Positioning System 2F-11 navigation spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida. See earlier GPS 2F-11 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Recap story: Three Atlas 5 launch successes in one month
CAPE CANAVERAL — Completing an October to remember, the third Atlas 5 rocket launch in just 29 days thundered into space today, this time to replace an aging satellite in the Global Positioning System. Launching a commercial telecommunications satellite for Mexico on Oct. 2, two formation-flying intelligence spacecraft for National Reconnaissance Office on Oct. 8…
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Photos: Thursday’s Atlas 5 rollout to launch pad
The Atlas 5 rocket emerges from the Vertical Integration Facility for rollout to Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral in preparation to launch GPS 2F-11 on Friday at 12:17 p.m. EDT. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier GPS 2F-11 coverage. Our Atlas archive.