Tag: United Launch Alliance
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Rocket and satellite preps on track for next Atlas 5 launch
File photo of an Atlas 5 first stage booster being raised at the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: ULA Final assembly of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket slated to blast off Jan. 18 with a U.S. Air Force surveillance satellite designed to detect missile attacks has begun…
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Photos: Delta 2 rocket revealed after mobile gantry rollback
Ground crews at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California retracted a mobile gantry away from the Delta 2 rocket Monday afternoon, revealing the 128-foot-tall (39-meter) booster on its launch pad awaiting liftoff with a new polar-orbiting weather observatory. The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket is set for blastoff at 1:47:02 a.m. PST (4:47:02 a.m.…
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Photos: Delta 2 rocket revealed after mobile gantry rollback
Ground crews at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California retracted a mobile gantry away from the Delta 2 rocket Monday afternoon, revealing the 128-foot-tall (39-meter) booster on its launch pad awaiting liftoff with a new polar-orbiting weather observatory. The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket is set for blastoff at 1:47:02 a.m. PST (4:47:02 a.m.…
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Battery changeout delays weather satellite launch from California
The JPSS 1 satellite, closed inside a transport container, arrived at the Delta 2 launch pad at Vandenberg on Oct. 24 after being fueled and prepared for flight at a nearby processing facility. Credit: NASA/Billy Vinnedge The launch of a new U.S. weather satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has been delayed at…
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Polar-orbiting weather satellite joined up with Delta 2 rocket in California
File photo of the Delta 2 rocket’s second stage lifted atop the launcher. Credit: NASA/NOAA The first in NOAA’s new series of polar-orbiting weather satellites has been lifted atop United Launch Alliance’s second-to-last Delta 2 rocket on a launch pad in California, ready for encapsulation and final checkouts ahead of a predawn launch set for…
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World’s largest methane-fueled rocket engine test-fired by Blue Origin
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT) with ULA statement. First hotfire of our BE-4 engine is a success #GradatimFerociter pic.twitter.com/xuotdzfDjF — Blue Origin (@blueorigin) October 19, 2017 Blue Origin has conducted the first hotfire test of its BE-4 rocket engine in West Texas, a powerplant fueled by liquified natural gas and liquid oxygen…
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Bigelow Aerospace and ULA widen their sights to plan an outpost in lunar orbit
An artist’s conception shows a Bigelow B330 expandable module in lunar orbit, with United Launch Alliance’s ACES propulsion stage attached. (Bigelow Aerospace Illustration) NASA is shifting its attention to the moon, and so are Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance: Today the two companies said they’d work together to put an outpost in orbit around…
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Systima’s pyrovalves make their debut with Atlas 5 launch of NROL-52 spy satellite
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket lofts a payload into space for the NROL-52 mission. (ULA Photo) After more than a week of delays, the National Reconnaissance Office was glad to see its latest spy satellite go into orbit on Sunday — and so was Kirkland, Wash.-based Systima Technologies. When a United Launch Alliance Atlas…
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Photos: News media shots of the NROL-52 liftoff
Cape Canaveral was the point of origination for the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and the classified NROL-52 payload. Photo Credit: Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now See earlier NROL-52 coverage.
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket powers NROL-52 payload to space
The Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral for its pre-dawn ascent to deploy the NROL-52 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier NROL-52 coverage.