Tag: United Launch Alliance
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Favorable weather forecast for Wednesday’s Delta 4 launch from Florida
The Delta 4 will launch from Complex 37. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Air Force meteorologists are expecting good weather to launch the Delta 4 rocket with a military communications satellite Wednesday evening from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff of the United Launch Alliance booster carrying the Wideband Global SATCOM 8 spacecraft is scheduled to occur at…
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ULA unveils ‘RocketBuilder’ website
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket sits inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral earlier this month before rollout with the GOES-R weather satellite. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky Rocket-builder United Launch Alliance unveiled a first-of-a-kind website Wednesday that shows potential customers exactly what it will cost to…
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Atlas 5 rocket to finish year with commercial broadband satellite launch
The EchoStar 19 spacecraft in the factory. Credit: SSL CAPE CANAVERAL — Preparing for its eighth launch of the year, the Atlas 5 rocket program has begun stacking the vehicle that will deploy a commercial satellite to provide Internet connectivity to rural America. The United Launch Alliance rocket will haul the EchoStar 19 spacecraft into…
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Photos: America’s 100th EELV blasts off
The 100th flight of America’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program — a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket — departed Cape Canaveral on Saturday evening carrying the most advanced U.S. weather satellite ever made. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images See earlier GOES-R coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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U.S. military communications satellite moved to pad for Dec. 7 launch into space
The eight WGS mission patches. Credit: Air Force logos; Spaceflight Now graphic CAPE CANAVERAL — The next satellite to launch from Cape Canaveral — an essential communications satellite for the U.S. military and allied nations — was moved to the pad and mounted atop its Delta 4 rocket today. The eighth Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft…
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Video: GOES-R departs Earth atop Atlas 5 rocket
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 197 feet tall and and weighing 1.2 million pounds, unleashes 2.4 million pounds of thrust from its main engine and four solid-fuel boosters at 6:42 p.m. EST (2342 GMT) Saturday to launch the GOES-R weather observer for NASA and NOAA from Cape Canaveral, Florida. See earlier GOES-R…
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Atlas 5 launches the most advanced U.S. weather satellite in history
CAPE CANAVERAL — Revolutionizing the way American meteorologists see the weather, likened to the advancement from black and white television to modern high definition TV, a new observatory was successfully launched Saturday by an Atlas 5 rocket to serve as the linchpin to forecasting what tomorrow will bring. The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket…
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Photos: Atlas 5 launches new weather observer
Launching the high-tech GOES-R satellite to revolutionize U.S. weather forecasting, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thunders away from Cape Canaveral on Saturday at 6:42 p.m. EST (2342 GMT). Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier GOES-R coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Atlas 5 rolled out with GOES-R aboard
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, equipped with four strap-on solid-propellant boosters for added performance, was transfered from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 to deliver the GOES-R weather satellite into space. Liftoff is planned for Saturday at 5:42 p.m. EST (2242 GMT). The rocket was wheeled out aboard…
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Video: Atlas 5/GOES-R pre-launch news conference
Preview the deployment of the advanced GOES-R weather satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in the pre-launch news conference held at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, Nov. 17. Briefing participants are: * Stephen Volz, assistant administrator for satellite and information services at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration * Greg Mandt, GOES-R…