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Live coverage: Atlas 5 launches from Cape Canaveral with missile warning satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s SBIRS GEO Flight 4 missile warning satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Launch Alliance’s live video webcast of the Atlas 5 launch will begin at 7:28 p.m. EST on Jan. 19 (0028 GMT on Jan.…
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Rocket and satellite preps on track for next Atlas 5 launch
File photo of an Atlas 5 first stage booster being raised at the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: ULA Final assembly of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket slated to blast off Jan. 18 with a U.S. Air Force surveillance satellite designed to detect missile attacks has begun…
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GOES-S weather satellite arrives in Florida for launch preparations
The GOES-S satellite, seen here inside its shipping container, arrived at its Florida launch base Monday. Credit: NASA/Leif Heimbold NOAA’s latest weather satellite, a new-generation geostationary observatory named GOES-S, landed at the Kennedy Space Center’s former space shuttle runway Monday aboard a U.S. Air Force transport jet, ready to begin final preparations for launch March…
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Arianespace nets two commercial launch contracts
File photo of an Ariane 5 rocket on its launch pad at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron Arianespace has opened the year with two contracts to deliver commercial television and broadband satellites to orbit aboard Ariane 5 rockets launched from French…