Tag: United Launch Alliance
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Delta 4 successfully soars to the high ground to deploy two patrol satellites
CAPE CANAVERAL — The 375th Delta rocket doubled the size of the Air Force’s “neighborhood watch” program today with the successful launch and deployment of two surveillance satellites into the vast geosynchronous belt of spacecraft around the planet. Evolved from its humble beginnings 56 years ago to today’s modern Delta 4 rockets, the 206-foot-tall vehicle…
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Photos: More Launch shots of Delta 375 rocket
The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Medium+ (4,2) rocket lifted off at 12:52 a.m. EDT (0452 GMT) from Cape Canaveral for the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program. Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier Delta 375 coverage. Our Delta archive.
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Live coverage: Tonight’s Delta 4 countdown and launch journal
(Launch webcast begins at 12:27 a.m. EDT) Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket flight with two GSSAP space situational awareness satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Preview: Two space informants to be launched to geosynchronous orbit
Payload fairing logo for this launch. CAPE CANAVERAL — The Air Force will launch a second pair of small security probes 22,300 miles above the Earth using a Delta 4 rocket on Friday to alert ground controllers of impending space collisions and monitor potential meddling with U.S. orbiting assets. The once-classified Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness…
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Video: Gantry swing arm arrives at Atlas 5 pad for astronauts to board Starliners
Constructing the launch pad infrastructure for astronauts to board Boeing’s Starliner crew capsules atop United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets, workers delivered the Crew Access Arm with its White Room to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 on Thursday, Aug. 11. It was built in Oak Hill, just north of the Kennedy Space Center. The 42-foot-long swing…
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Photos and video: Payload hoisted atop Delta 4 for upcoming launch
The two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP, satellites for the U.S. military were mounted aboard the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket on Aug. 5. Photos and video of the operation were released today. Liftoff is planned for Aug. 19 from Cape Canaveral. Photos and video by United Launch Alliance See earlier Delta…
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Photos: Solar arrays attached to asteroid-bound OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, workers have finished the pre-launch assembly and fueling of OSIRIS-REx for the asteroid sample return spacecraft for liftoff Sept. 8. The probe will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket en route to Asteroid Bennu to capture a specimen for return to Earth. Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing…
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Air Force satellite duo mated to Delta 4 rocket for next week’s launch
File photo of first GSSAP payload delivery to pad in 2014. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Two space informants to track objects in geosynchronous orbit have been mounted atop their Delta 4 launch vehicle for liftoff Aug. 19. The United Launch Alliance rocket will carry the pair of Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP,…
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Buildup of unusual launcher begins for NASA’s asteroid sample return mission
File photo of first Atlas 5-411 launch in 2006 with ASTRA 1KR satellite. Credit: Pat Corkery/Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — It is a rocket like no other, a vehicle with a single solid-fuel booster mounted to its side, that will launch NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe next month to bring back a sample of Asteroid Bennu. The…
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Next missile warning sentinel set for October launch to geosynchronous orbit
SBIRS GEO Flight 3 in the factory before shipment. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — A highly sophisticated U.S. Air Force satellite to sound the alarm when an enemy missile launches has shipped to its Florida launch site for liftoff in October aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. The third Space Based Infrared…