Tag: United Launch Alliance
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Stats: ULA to mark milestone in powering payloads to space
Launch of Atlas 5 with Landsat 8. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — United Launch Alliance, the incumbent leader in U.S. rocketry, goes for its 100th flight Friday, a milestone nine years in the making after eclectic missions to Mars, the moon and Jupiter, and deployments of commercial, military and reconnaissance spacecraft. An Atlas 5 rocket…
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Boeing rejects bid to buy ULA as engine race heats up
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Credit: ULA Boeing said Wednesday it has turned down an offer from Aerojet Rocketdyne to buy United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture that operates the Atlas and Delta rocket fleets. The decision keeps ULA’s plan to select a…
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Boeing rejects bid to buy ULA as engine race heats up
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Credit: ULA Boeing said Wednesday it has turned down an offer from Aerojet Rocketdyne to buy United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture that operates the Atlas and Delta rocket fleets. The decision keeps ULA’s plan to select a…
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Build-up of crew access tower begins at Atlas 5 pad
The first tier of the Atlas 5’s crew access tower was transferred to the launch pad Sept. 9 and hoisted into position Tuesday. Credit: NASA/Dmitrios Gerondidakis A new fixture on the Cape Canaveral skyline began rising Tuesday, with the placement of the first of seven segments for a 200-foot-tall crew access tower at the Atlas…
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Build-up of crew access tower begins at Atlas 5 pad
The first tier of the Atlas 5’s crew access tower was transferred to the launch pad Sept. 9 and hoisted into position Tuesday. Credit: NASA/Dmitrios Gerondidakis A new fixture on the Cape Canaveral skyline began rising Tuesday, with the placement of the first of seven segments for a 200-foot-tall crew access tower at the Atlas…
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Air Force assigns new Delta 4 rocket launch
Vandenberg launched the first Delta 4 Medium+ (5,2) on April 3, 2012. Credit: Ben Cooper (more launch pics) There’s a new launch being added to Vandenberg Air Force Base’s schedules — another Delta 4 rocket flight for the National Reconnaissance Office. The Air Force’s Launch Systems Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center in…
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Photos: Atlas 5 puts on predawn sky show
Streaking away from Cape Canaveral less than an hour before sunrise Wednesday, an Atlas 5 launcher painted a memorable spectacle in the skies over Florida, catching the first rays of the morning as it rocketed out of the stratosphere with a U.S. Navy communications satellite. The 20-story rocket blasted off at 6:18 a.m. EDT (1018…
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Swiss company to move Atlas 5 work to Alabama
File photo of payload fairings inside Ruag Space’s facility in Emmen, Switzerland. Credit: Ruag Space Ruag Space, the Swiss manufacturer of nose shrouds for the Atlas 5 rocket, plans to relocate production of Atlas launcher components to United Launch Alliance’s rocket assembly plant in Decatur, Alabama. The joint partnership, announced by Ruag Space and ULA…
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Atlas 5 rocket awarded commercial launch for EchoStar
File photo of Atlas 5-431 rocket. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — A powerhouse Internet-from-space communications satellite will be launched from the Cape next year atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, officials announced Wednesday. The commercial EchoStar 19 spacecraft is targeting a late 2016 launch aboard an Atlas 5 rocket flying in its 431…
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Video: Delta 4 launch highlights
This is the launch highlights reel from United Launch Alliance of the Delta 4 rocket carrying the seventh satellite for the Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM constellation. See our earlier WGS 7 coverage. Our Delta archive.