Tag: ULA
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ULA Atlas V successfully launches with AFSPC-11
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket launched the AFSPC-11 mission for the United States Air Force Saturday, deploying the CBAS communications satellite and EAGLE technology demonstrator. Liftoff occurred at the first time of asking at 19:13 Eastern Time (23:13 UTC). Saturday’s launch involved Atlas undertaking a lengthy mission to inject its payloads directly into near-geostationary…
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ULA laying the foundations for an Econosphere in CisLunar space
United Launch Alliance (ULA) President and CEO Tory Bruno has provided a new overview of his company’s role in a proposed “Econosphere” in space. Although it will take decades to fully realize its potential, ULA hardware is set to provide the key elements via its CisLunar 1000 roadmap, allowing numerous commercial companies to come together…
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ULA laying the foundations for an Econosphere in CisLunar space
United Launch Alliance (ULA) President and CEO Tory Bruno has provided a new overview of his company’s role in a proposed “Econosphere” in space. Although it will take decades to fully realize its potential, ULA hardware is set to provide the key elements via its CisLunar 1000 roadmap, allowing numerous commercial companies to come together…
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ULA Atlas V successfully launches with GOES-S
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket has deployed an advanced weather satellite for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday. The mission to deploy the GOES-S satellite began with liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at the opening of a two-hour window at 17:02 Eastern Time (22:02 UTC). GOES-S is the second…
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Atlas V launches with SBIRS GEO-4
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V has launched on her seventy-fifth flight, lofting the SBIRS GEO-4, a missile early warning satellite. Following a scrub on Thursday, Friday’s attempt was issue free, launching at the opening of the window at 19:48 Eastern time (00:48 UTC on Saturday). SBIRS GEO-4 is the fourth geostationary satellite in the Space…
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ULA Delta IV successfully launches NROL-47
United Launch Alliance launched a Delta IV rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying the classified NROL-47 mission for the US National Reconnaissance Office. Following a scrub on Thursday, liftoff occurred on Friday at 22:10 UTC. NRO Launch 47, or NROL-47, is a national security payload that will be operated by the National Reconnaissance Office…
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Delta II launches on penultimate mission with JPSS-1
United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched – at the third attempt – the penultimate Delta II mission on Saturday, carrying the JPSS-1 weather satellite on its path to orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Liftoff, from Space Launch Complex 2W, occurred during a 62-second window opening at 01:47 Pacific time (09:47 UTC) on Saturday.…
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ULA and Bigelow expand association with lunar depot plan
United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Bigelow Aerospace have updated their future plans via an agreement to launch a B330 module on a Vulcan rocket to an eventual home in Low Lunar Orbit. Set with a target date of 2022, the “Lunar Depot” could become a precursor to a Deep Space Gateway that NASA is interested…
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Parker Solar Probe in integrated testing, launch on track for July 2018
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have attached the Parker Solar Probe’s solar shadow-shield for final, integrated vehicle testing ahead of launch. The probe, which will be the first to “touch the Sun” is being readied for an anticipated 31 July 2018 launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket…
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Parker Solar Probe in integrated testing, launch on track for July 2018
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have attached the Parker Solar Probe’s solar shadow-shield for final, integrated vehicle testing ahead of launch. The probe, which will be the first to “touch the Sun” is being readied for an anticipated 31 July 2018 launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket…