Tag: Pacific Missile Range Facility

  • Video clips show rocket anomaly high above Hawaii

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    Videos of Tuesday’s sunset liftoff of the U.S. Air Force’s Super Strypi launcher show the low-cost fin-guided rocket streaking into the skies over Hawaii and arcing downrange toward the south with 13 satellites before apparently losing control and breaking up. The rotating motion seen in a view from the rocket’s on-board camera is normal —…

  • Air Force declares failure on Super Strypi test launch

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    The Super Strypi launch vehicle blasted off from a rail launch platform at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii at 0345 GMT Wednesday (10:45 p.m. EST; 5:45 p.m. HST). Credit: U.S. Air Force/University of Hawaii/Spaceflight Now The first flight of an experimental U.S. military rocket designed for low-cost, quick-reaction satellite launches ended…

  • Hawaii’s first satellite launch set for Tuesday

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    The Super Strypi launch vehicle is fastened to a rail launch system at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Credit: U.S. Air Force U.S. military authorities have granted approval for liftoff Tuesday of a simplified satellite launcher from Hawaii on a test flight officials say will help drive down the costs of sending…

  • Live coverage: Maiden flight of Super Strypi launcher fails

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of the first Super Strypi rocket on the U.S. Air Force’s ORS-4 mission with 13 small satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Meet the the Super Strypi launch vehicle

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    The U.S. Air Force has released the first-ever photos of the Super Strypi launch vehicle, a souped-up version of a Cold War-era sounding rocket about to be shot into orbit on a unique demonstration flight with 13 small satellites. The military previously only showed photos of a ground mockup of the Super Strypi. Sporting aerodynamic…

  • NASA confident in finding fix for test parachute failure

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    Two frames from a video camera on-board NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle show the craft’s supersonic parachute inflate, then begin to tear apart. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech One day after a supersonic parachute crafted to land robots on Mars failed on a test flight high above Hawaii, NASA officials said Tuesday a jackpot of high-resolution video…

  • Huge parachute shredded during Mars entry experiment

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION After dropping from a high-altitude ballon, the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator’s Star 48 rocket motor fired (left) to propel the craft to an altitude of 180,000 feet. The vehicle’s supersonic parachute ripped apart (right) as it deployed. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Flying more than twice the speed of sound…

  • Debut flight of rail-guided space launcher slips to October

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    A mock-up of the Super Strypi. Credit: Sandia National Laboratories The first flight of a new rail-guided satellite launch system from a military missile range in Hawaii has been delayed until late October due to problems with the rocket’s first stage motor, according to a U.S. Air Force official. The rail-launched Super Strypi launcher is…