Tag: AV-062
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Containment of Vandenberg wildfire begins as hundreds of firefighters battle
Updated at 12:05 a.m. EDT with latest acreage and containment numbers A CalFire S-2T makes a Phos-Chek drop on the Vandenberg fire. Credit: Santa Barbara County Fire Dept. United Launch Alliance technicians were allowed to return to the Atlas 5 pad Tuesday as firefighters continued to wage air and ground campaigns against the wildfire burning…
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Uncontrolled wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base continues to rage
Updated Tuesday @ 1600 GMT with new acreage and containment numbers; adding IR maps Flames burn behind the Atlas 5 rocket pad Monday. Credit: Santa Barbara County Fire Dept. The escalating wildfire at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base grew even larger Monday despite the round-the-clock efforts of firefighters trying to bring the blaze under control…
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Atlas 5 launch postponed by wildfire, Range availability until Sept. 26
(Launch webcast begins at 11:05 a.m. PDT / 2:05 p.m. EDT / 1805 GMT) Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket on the pad with WorldView 4 satellite
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket stands atop Space Launch Complex 3-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on the eve of Friday’s WorldView 4 mission. Photo credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News See earlier WorldView 4 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Atlas 5/WorldView 4 launch timeline
This is the ascent timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 11:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. EDT; 1830 GMT). T+0:00:01.1: Liftoff The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5…
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Photos: WorldView 4 satellite’s road to launch
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 4 commercial satellite, which will join sister-spacecraft WorldView 3 in orbit to snap the highest quality Earth imagery available on the market at 31-centimeter resolution, was built by Lockheed Martin and will be launched Friday atop an Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. On July 21, WorldView 4 was tucked…
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Idled by Range facility rework for months, Vandenberg ready to launch again Friday
File photo of Atlas 5 at Vandenberg. Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA Resuming space launches from the U.S. Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after a half-year infrastructure outage, an Atlas 5 rocket will boost a commercial Earth-imaging bird into orbit on Friday. Using the same United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 built and stacked…
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After three-year wait, commercial imaging observatory shipped for launch
WorldView 4. Credit: Lockheed Martin More than three years after its launch was delayed by a corporate merger, a commercial Earth-imaging satellite has finally shipped to its California rocket base for liftoff aboard an Atlas 5 in September. The WorldView 4 spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was moved this week from its factory in Sunnyvale…
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Launch of NASA’s next Mars mission delayed until at least 2018
NASA’s InSight lander is pictured inside Lockheed Martin’s satellite factory in Colorado. Credit: Lockheed Martin Persistent problems with a seismometer instrument package will keep NASA’s InSight Mars lander from departing for the red planet during a March launch period, and officials said they will consider shelving the $675 million project if the issues prove too…
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Two ‘microprobes’ to accompany InSight lander to Mars
Mechanical engineer Joel Steinkraus and systems engineer Farah Alibay hold a full-scale mechanical mock-up of a MarCO CubeSat. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA managers have formally approved the launch of two small CubeSat-based satellites with the InSight Mars lander next year, adding an experimental data relay capability to give ground controllers news about the landing’s outcome. Hundreds…