Tag: Vandenberg
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SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 conducts static fire test ahead of Jason-3 mission
SpaceX rolled out its Falcon 9 rocket for a static fire that was conducted on Monday at the company’s west coast launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The Jason-3 mission, scheduled to launch on 17 January 2016, will monitor Earth’s ocean’s surface topography and currents for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as…
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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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SpaceX conducts tanking test on In-Flight Abort Falcon 9
As preparations continue for next week’s Falcon 9 launch of the CRS-6 Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, SpaceX’s Vandenberg team has put the In-Flight abort booster through a tanking test. The unique Falcon 9 – sporting just three engines – will be tasked with lofting a Dragon 2 test vehicle into the Max-Drag region of…
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Photos: Final batch of SMAP launch shots aboard Delta 2 rocket
The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket lifts off with NASA’s SMAP observatory at 6:22 a.m. local time on Saturday, Jan. 31 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Photo credit: William G. Hartenstein / United Launch Alliance “We had a terrific ride into space aboard the United Launch Alliance’s Delta 2 vehicle. They deposited…
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Photos: Gallery of Delta 2 launch
The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket lifts off with NASA’s SMAP observatory at 6:22 a.m. local time on Saturday, Jan. 31 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Photo credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Photo
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Video: Highlights of weekend’s Delta 2 launch
The United Launch Alliance flight highlights reel for the Delta 2 rocket and NASA’s SMAP observatory from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Launch camera replays provide these different angles of the Delta 2 rocket launching with SMAP.
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Photos: Delta 2 rocket blasts off with SMAP satellite
The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 was launched Saturday at 6:22 a.m.local time with NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Photo credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News
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Full story: Delta 2 rises to occasion with SMAP observatory
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE — The ever-dependable Delta 2 rocket continued its flawless service to NASA and Earth sciences today with the launch of a $916 million environmental probe focused on producing global maps of soil moisture from space. “The SMAP project is absolutely thrilled to be catching a ride to space on the Delta…
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Video: Delta 2 blasts off from Vandenberg
NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite blasts off aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket Saturday, launching into orbit on a three-year mission to measure moisture levels in Earth’s soils. The spacecraft launched at 6:22 a.m. PST (9:22 a.m. EST; 1422 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Delta 2’s upper stage…
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Photos: Gantry rollback from Delta 2
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