Tag: United Launch Alliance
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled to launch data relay satellite for NASA
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will boost NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M, or TDRS-M, into space arrived at Cape Canaveral on June 26 aboard the Delta Mariner cargo vessel from the production factory in Alabama. Flying in its basic two-stage configuration with no strap-on solids, the Atlas 5 was stacked aboard…
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AV-074/TDRS-M launch fact sheet
Payload: TRACKING AND DATA RELAY SATELLITE-M NASA geosynchronous communications satellite Relays data from ISS, Hubble and LEO customers Cost: $408 million satellite + $132m launch service Launch Date: Friday, Aug. 18, 2017 Launch Window: 40 minutes 8:03-8:43 a.m. EDT 1203-1243 GMT Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida Space Launch Complex 41 Customer: NASA…
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Two U.S. military satellite launches delayed into next year
An Atlas 5-411 will launch the SBIRS GEO Flight 4 satellite in January. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — Two U.S. military satellite launches planned for this fall from Cape Canaveral are being delayed to 2018 due to separate factors, the Air Force says. The fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency protected communications spacecraft and…
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Commercial lunar mission signs up with Atlas 5 for launch
Credit: Astrobotic illustration of lander CAPE CANAVERAL — In a commercial push to return to the Moon while celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Astrobotic Technology Inc. has contracted with United Launch Alliance to use an Atlas 5 rocket to send the Peregrine lander to the lunar surface in 2019. “Astrobotic is thrilled to…
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Videos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled to launch NASA’s TDRS-M bird
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will boost NASA’s latest communications relay satellite into space is targeting an Aug. 20 liftoff at 7:56 a.m. EDT (1156 GMT). The Tracking and Data Relay satellite-M, or TDRS-M, will be carried aloft from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, reaching a customized…
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United Launch Alliance agrees to deliver Astrobotic’s lander to the moon in 2019
An artist’s conception shows the Peregrine lunar lander on the moon’s surface. (Astrobotic Photo) In two years, it will be the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, and Astrobotic Technology wants to celebrate by going back — this time sending their robotic Peregrine lunar lander. The former Google Lunar XPRIZE contender today announced…
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NASA’s next-generation TDRS-M satellite damaged, potentially pushing back launch
A damaged antenna could mean a delay for the launch of NASA’s TDRS-M satellite, shown here at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla. (NASA Photo / Glenn Benson) Houston, we may have a problem, and it could come from an antenna that was damaged on Friday during spaceflight closeout activities in Titusville, Fla. The Boeing-made…
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Photos: NASA’s TDRS-M satellite being readied for upcoming launch
CAPE CANAVERAL — With the Atlas 5 rocket that will boost it into space now assembled and waiting, a $408 million NASA communications satellite is in final preparations for its science data relay mission. The Tracking and Data Relay satellite-M, or TDRS-M, will be carried aloft by United Launch Alliance on Aug. 3 from Complex…
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XCOR Aerospace lays off all employees, throwing rocket projects into limbo
XCOR Aerospace had to put work on the Lynx suborbital space plane on hold. (XCOR Illustration) After more than a year’s worth of workforce shrinkage, XCOR Aerospace has laid off the remainder of its employees – putting projects ranging from its Lynx suborbital space plane to its work on rocket propulsion systems into deep limbo.…
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Air Force selects Atlas 5 to launch multipurpose satellite to high orbit
An Atlas 5-551 will launch the Air Force’s STP 3 mission. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — A nuclear blast detection satellite and an assortment of experiments will be boosted directly into geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above Earth in 2019 by the most-powerful version of United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket, the Air Force has decided.…