Tag: Space Launch Complex 41
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ULA selects launch pads for new Vulcan rocket
ULA chief executive Tory Bruno tweeted this image illustrating the Vulcan rocket’s evolution from the Atlas rocket family. The Vulcan will use the Atlas 5’s current launch pads in Florida and California, according to a senior ULA official. Credit: ULA United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan rocket will lift off from the company’s existing Atlas 5…
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Build-up of crew access tower begins at Atlas 5 pad
The first tier of the Atlas 5’s crew access tower was transferred to the launch pad Sept. 9 and hoisted into position Tuesday. Credit: NASA/Dmitrios Gerondidakis A new fixture on the Cape Canaveral skyline began rising Tuesday, with the placement of the first of seven segments for a 200-foot-tall crew access tower at the Atlas…
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Build-up of crew access tower begins at Atlas 5 pad
The first tier of the Atlas 5’s crew access tower was transferred to the launch pad Sept. 9 and hoisted into position Tuesday. Credit: NASA/Dmitrios Gerondidakis A new fixture on the Cape Canaveral skyline began rising Tuesday, with the placement of the first of seven segments for a 200-foot-tall crew access tower at the Atlas…
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Photos: Atlas 5/MMS launch gallery
Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC
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More views of Thursday night’s Atlas 5 launch
Spaceflight Now’s readers sent in photos from Thursday night’s launch of four NASA satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, marking a fiery start to a mission probing the fundamental workings of the magnetic bubble shielding Earth from cosmic radiation. The Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad at 10:44 p.m.…
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Atlas 5 launch pad being prepared for astronaut crews
Artist’s concept of an Atlas 5 rocket and CST-100 crew capsule on the launch pad. Credit: United Launch Alliance Work on Boeing’s CST-100 commercial crew capsule will ramp up at the program’s new home base in Florida this year, with construction of a crew access tower at the Atlas 5 rocket’s launch pad underway and…
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Readers share their views of Tuesday’s Atlas 5 launch
A powerful Atlas 5 rocket fitted with a kerosene-burning main engine and five solid-fueled boosters lit up Florida’s Space Coast with Tuesday night’s blastoff carrying a U.S. Navy communications satellite into orbit. We present a sample of launch photos submitted by Spaceflight Now’s readers. Photo credit: Ed Dosado (https://www.facebook.com/EDosadoPhotography) Photo credit: John C. Karjanis (http://reflecting50for50.zenfolio.com)…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 blasts off with Navy satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of the U.S. Navy’s third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) communications satellite on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Thick clouds a concern for Tuesday’s Atlas 5 launch
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — The preliminary weather forecast for Tuesday evening’s Atlas 5 rocket launch carrying a Navy communications satellite predicts a 60 percent chance of acceptable conditions, with thick clouds the main threat against flying at 7:43 p.m. EST as scheduled. “On launch day, high pressure migrates east of the peninsula in…