Tag: Wallops
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Northrop Grumman successfully launches NROL-129 from MARS
Northrop Grumman launched the classified NROL-129 mission, consisting of four payloads designed and built by the National Reconnaissance Office. Liftoff targeted Wednesday, 15 July in a launch window that opened at 09:00 EDT (13:00 UTC), with T-0 coming 46 minutes later after a delay relating to wayward boats in the Range. The mission was declared…
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Northrop Grumman successfully launches NROL-129 from MARS
Northrop Grumman launched the classified NROL-129 mission, consisting of four payloads designed and built by the National Reconnaissance Office. Liftoff targeted Wednesday, 15 July in a launch window that opened at 09:00 EDT (13:00 UTC), with T-0 coming 46 minutes later after a delay relating to wayward boats in the Range. The mission was declared…
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Northrop Grumman readies for debut Minotaur IV launch from MARS
For the first time in its 10-year flight history, the Minotaur IV rocket is preparing to make its inaugural launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, MARS, on Wallops Island, Virginia. The classified mission from the National Reconnaissance Office, known as NROL-129, is set to launch sometime within a launch window that opens at 09:00 EDT…
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Rocket Lab rolls out first Electron at LC-2 ahead of Q3 2020 launch
Rocket Lab has rolled out the first Electron rocket that will lift off from Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), the company’s launch site at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS). Rocket Lab has also performed several tests on the rocket and ground equipment to verify pad systems. LC-2’s maiden launch, carrying the sole payload of the STP-27RM…
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Antares lofts Cygnus on 13th ISS resupply flight
A Northrop Grumman Antares 230+ lifted off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia on Saturday after upper level winds called off a Friday attempt. The rocket carried the automated Cygnus spacecraft on its 13th contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Its original launch date was scrubbed due to…
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Rocket Lab launches Electron Flight 9 as work on new U.S. pad continues
On Thursday, Rocket Lab launched its workhorse Electron rocket on its ninth total mission since its debut in 2017, and its fifth mission in 2019 – the most for the company to date. The payload consisted of a single satellite provided by California’s Astro Digital as part of a dedicated flight. The 14-day launch window…
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Rocket Lab picks Virginia’s Wallops Island for U.S. launch site, adding to N.Z. pad
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck and other dignitaries pose with their shovels for a groundbreaking ceremony on Virginia’s Wallops Island. (Rocket Lab Photo via Twitter) Rocket Lab officially unveiled its plan to build a commercial launch site at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia’s Wallops Island, with liftoffs due to begin in a year. The…
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Rocket Lab selects Wallops as first U.S. launch site, readies Electron for November launch
U.S.-based company Rocket Lab has announced the selection of Wallops at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia as their first U.S. launch location to supplement capabilities from their New Zealand launch pad. The announcement comes roughly one month ahead of the company’s anticipated New Zealand launch of an Electron rocket named “It’s Business Time”, the…
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Antares launches OA-9 Cygnus to the ISS
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft began its next supply run to the International Space Station Monday, with liftoff aboard an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. Launch came at the end of a five-minute window at 04:44 Eastern Time (08:44 UTC). Monday’s launch begins the tenth flight of Cygnus, one of two US…
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Antares launches with OA-8 Cygnus en route to the ISS
Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket has launched a Cygnus spacecraft on Sunday, beginning the company’s CRS-8 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff, from Launch Pad 0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia, came after Saturday’s attempt was scrubbed due to a plane in the hazard area. SECOND ATTEMPT: Status:…