Tag: ULA
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ULA Atlas V successfully launches with GPS IIF-10
The United States Air Force is continuing to replenish its fleet of Global Positioning System navigation satellites Wednesday via the successful launch of the tenth Block IIF spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral was on schedule at 11:36 local time (15:36 UTC) – at the start of a…
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World launch markets look toward rocket reusability
What was once thought to be a pipe dream of having a reusable system of rocket and rocket components to reduce the overall cost of spaceflight is now gaining significant traction, as SpaceX leads the way toward a fully reusable first stage, while the United Launch Alliance and the European Space Agency move toward reusability…
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USA’s next generation weather sentinel completes assembly
The first of four next-generation weather satellites has completed assembly at Lockheed Martin. The new Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite “GOES-R” will launch atop an Atlas V rocket in early 2016, ahead of providing significant improvements to monitoring the weather conditions over North America. GOES-R: The history of weather satellites working in geostationary orbits reaches back to…
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ULA Atlas V conducts X-37B spaceplane launch
The US Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane began its fourth mission Wednesday, lifting off atop United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket to begin a classified mission for Air Force Space Command. The Atlas departed from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:05 Eastern, the opening opportunity provided by two short launch windows on Wednesday. Atlas V AFSPC-5…
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ULA Delta IV successfully launches GPS IIF-9
United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the ninth Block IIF Global Positioning System navigation satellite Wednesday in an afternoon lift-off from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff, atop a Delta IV rocket, was on schedule at 14:36 EDT (18:36 UTC), at the opening of what was an 18-minute window at Space Launch Complex 37B. Delta IV Launch: The…
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ULA wants you to help pick name of new rocket
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket on the launch pad with NASA’s Juno spacecraft in August 2011. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Eagle? Freedom? GalaxyOne? United Launch Alliance wants public input in the naming of a next-generation launcher designed to replace the historic Atlas and Delta rocket lines in the 2020s. The top three finalists were…
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ULA and Orbital ATK team up for SPP mission
NASA has selected the United Launch Alliance (ULA) to loft its Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The July, 2018 launch will utilize ULA’s Delta IV Heavy rocket, augmented by Orbital ATK’s Star-48 solid motor as a third stage, in order to cope with the extremely high energy required for this flagship mission.…
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MMS successfully launched by ULA’s Atlas V
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket launched NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission on Thursday. Launching from Cape Canaveral, the rocket placed the four-satellite constellation into a highly elliptical orbit, beginning a two-year mission to study reconnection in the magnetosphere. Launch occurred at the start of a thirty-minute window at 22:44 local time (02:44 UTC on…
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ULA Atlas V successfully launches third MUOS spacecraft
United Launch Alliance conducted its first launch of 2015 on Tuesday, with an Atlas V carrying the third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite to orbit. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 41 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station occurred at 20:04 local time (01:04 UTC on Wednesday), midway through a forty-four minute window. Atlas…
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Atlas V launches NROL-35 out of Vandenberg
United Launch Alliance has conducted its final launch of 2014, making use of a new upper stage engine on its Atlas V rocket to deliver a National Reconnaissance Office payload into orbit. Friday’s launch of NROL-35 dodged the weather and occurred at 19:19 local time (03:19 UTC on Saturday) from Space Launch Complex 3E at Vandenberg…