Tag: United Launch Alliance
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Live coverage: Delta 4 countdown and launch journal
Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket flight with the Wideband Global SATCOM 9 satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. (Launch webcast begins at 7:24 p.m. EDT (2324 GMT)
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Timeline: Delta 4/WGS 9 launch events
Follow the Delta 4 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37 launch pad to deploy the Wideband Global SATCOM 9 communications satellite. Liftoff is scheduled for Saturday at 7:44 p.m. EDT (2344 GMT). T-00:05.0 Engine start The RS-68A main engine begins to ignite as the liquid hydrogen fuel valve is opened, creating a…
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Preview: U.S. military satellite purchased by coalition forces to be launched Saturday
WGS 9 will be launched by a Delta 4 Medium+ (5,4) rocket. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — Signaling strength in the international cooperation between the U.S. military and allied nations, a satellite funded by five countries will be launched by the Air Force on Saturday to codify a global communications deal. A United…
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Delta 4’s military launch bumped by commercial SpaceX flight, but good weather expected
The Delta 4 will launch from Complex 37. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — With the SpaceX scrub earlier this week and the time needed to convert the Eastern Range over to the Delta 4, liftoff of that rocket carrying an internationally-purchased military communications satellite for the Air Force has been bumped to Saturday evening. Liftoff…
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Multimedia: WGS 9 readied for launch
This collection of photographs and videos shows the Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite No. 9 being encapsulated in the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 nose cone and hoisted atop the rocket for launch March 17 at 7:44 p.m. EDT (2344 GMT). Encapsulation occurred at the Astrotech processing facility on Feb. 14. Stacking atop the Delta…
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Next Cygnus commercial space freighter christened the S.S. John Glenn
CAPE CANAVERAL — Orbital ATK’s next commercial resupply freighter going to the International Space Station will be named the S.S. John Glenn, paying tribute to the legendary first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn died Dec. 8 at age 95. The company has made it tradition to give each of its autonomous Cygnus cargo ships…
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Photos: The S.S. John Glenn freighter readied to launch
The two structural elements of Orbital ATK’s OA-7 Cygnus space freighter were delivered to Kennedy Space Center for final assembly, the packing of cargo and launch to the International Space Station. Named in tribute to the first American to orbit Earth, this Cygnus is the S.S. John Glenn. It will be the seventh commercial resupply…
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Photos: Atlas 5 delivers success on 70th Launch
For its 70th launch in 14 years, the Atlas 5 rocket carried the NROL-79 payload into space for the National Reconnaissance Office. Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier NROL-79 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Atlas 5 powers covert reconnaissance payload to orbit on its 70th mission
Performing a successful spacelift mission for the U.S. spy satellite agency, an Atlas 5 rocket delivered a surveillance package into orbit today believed by analysts to be another pair of tandem sleuths to scoop up radio signals from adversarial ships at sea. Liftoff came at 9:49:51 a.m. local time (12:49:51 p.m. EST; 1749:51 GMT) from…
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Video: NROL-79 launch aboard Atlas 5
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 191 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, unleashes 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine at 9:49:51 a.m. local time (12:49:51 p.m. EST; 1749:51 GMT) today to launch the secret NROL-79 payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. See…