Tag: United Launch Alliance
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled for crucial GOES-R satellite launch
CAPE CANAVERAL — In the span of two weeks, United Launch Alliance technicians performed the basic buildup of the Atlas 5 rocket and then mated the advanced GOES-R weather satellite that will be hauled into space on Saturday. On Monday, Oct. 24, the Common Core Booster first stage was brought from the Atlas Spaceflight Operations…
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Delta 4 rocket undergoes launch day simulation for its next Air Force mission
Mission poster. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket went through a practice countdown and fueling exercise today to prepare for its Dec. 7 liftoff to deliver a U.S. military communications satellite into space. Today’s operation, an abbreviated version of a Wet Dress Rehearsal, saw the mobile service…
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Preview: Weather satellite to touch the lives of every American ready to launch
Mission’s launch poster. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — A new generation of spacecraft with unprecedented clarity and speed to observe the weather, improve forecasting and enhance tracking of severe storms across the United States begins with the launch of an Atlas 5 rocket on Saturday. The 197-foot-tall United Launch Alliance rocket will propel…
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Weather forecast favorable for launch of new weather observatory atop Atlas 5
File photo of Atlas 5. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — Near-perfect weather for launching a rocket into space is expected at Cape Canaveral on Saturday when an Atlas 5 rocket is scheduled to fly. The United Launch Alliance booster will carry the GOES-R weather satellite into orbit for NASA and NOAA, advancing the…
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Photos: Rollback of pad gantry to reveal Atlas 5 for launch
Early Friday morning, the 8-million-pound mobile service tower was retracted from around the Atlas 5 rocket, revealing the 189-foot-tall vehicle for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite. Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: Lockheed Martin Credit: Lockheed Martin Credit: Lockheed Martin Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: Lockheed Martin…
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Photos: Liftoff of Atlas 5 from California
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket departs Vandenberg Air Force Base today at 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT) to deliver the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite into polar orbit for DigitalGlobe. Credit: Gene Blevins / LA Daily News See earlier WorldView 4 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Atlas 5 soars for commercial satellite delivery
Launching the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thunders away from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base today at 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT). Credit: Gene Blevins / LA Daily News See earlier WorldView 4 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Commercial satellite launched to image the Earth in high-resolution
A companion to the world’s most powerful private Earth-imaging satellite rocketed into space today from the U.S. west coast atop an Atlas 5 to double the amount of high-resolution imagery available on the commercial market and satisfy the demands of customers clamoring for more. The 10-year mission of the WorldView 4 satellite began at 10:30:33…
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Video: Liftoff of WorldView 4 aboard Atlas 5 rocket
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 189 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, unleashes 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine at 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT) today to launch the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. See earlier WorldView…
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WorldView-4 joins DigitalGlobe’s armada of satellites keeping watch on the planet
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket rises from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, sending the WorldView-4 satellite and seven CubeSats into space. (Credit: ULA) DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite was sent into orbit today to capture high-resolution, multispectral imagery of Earth, almost two months after California’s wildfires forced a launch delay. A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5…