Tag: United Launch Alliance
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Same day rollouts and launches could return to Atlas 5 program
Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services CAPE CANAVERAL — Returning to the days of rollouts and launches in a span of only a few hours, the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 program is looking to resume this whirlwind experience. It was a procedure used in the early days of the program a decade ago, moving the…
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Delta 4 rocket evolving to upgraded main engine
Credit: Carleton Bailie/Boeing CAPE CANAVERAL — When the next Delta 4 rocket flies in July, as well as all future ones to come, the enhanced RS-68A main engine will power the boosters off the launch pad. This week’s successful Delta 4 launch that put a new GPS satellite into orbit marked the final launch of…
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Two more options added to ULA’s rocket naming poll
Fans of classical mythology and the fictional Star Trek universe can vote for two new candidates as the name of United Launch Alliance’s next generation rocket, with Vulcan and Zeus joining three other options in an online poll revealed earlier this week. ULA’s president and chief executive Tory Bruno announced the vote’s two new names…
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ULA wants you to help pick name of new rocket
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket on the launch pad with NASA’s Juno spacecraft in August 2011. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Eagle? Freedom? GalaxyOne? United Launch Alliance wants public input in the naming of a next-generation launcher designed to replace the historic Atlas and Delta rocket lines in the 2020s. The top three finalists were…
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Delta 4-Heavy selected for launch of solar probe
File photo of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket launch in June 2012. Credit: ULA A NASA spacecraft that will fly closer to the sun than any mission before will launch on a Delta 4-Heavy rocket in 2018, requiring a boost from the largest active launcher in the U.S. inventory and repeated flybys around Venus to reach…
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More views of Thursday night’s Atlas 5 launch
Spaceflight Now’s readers sent in photos from Thursday night’s launch of four NASA satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, marking a fiery start to a mission probing the fundamental workings of the magnetic bubble shielding Earth from cosmic radiation. The Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad at 10:44 p.m.…
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Snapshots from Atlas 5 launch
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off Thursday night with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale satellite quartet in a successful flight from Cape Canaveral. Credit: NASA TV
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Recap story: Atlas 5 rocket launches NASA satellite quartet
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Four magnetic explosion probes in a towering stack atop an Atlas 5 rocket rode a fountain of flame off the launch pad and into Earth orbit Thursday night for a $1.1 billion NASA science investigation into a universal force of nature. The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, lifted off at…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 blasts off with four NASA satellites
Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.