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Photos: Atlas 5 launches SBIRS GEO Flight 3
Launching a highly sophisticated infrared surveillance satellite for the U.S. military, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thunders away from Cape Canaveral. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now See earlier SBIRS GEO Flight 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Atlas 5 rocket successfully delivers vital national asset into space
CAPE CANAVERAL — A new infrared reconnaissance satellite for one of the United States’ highest priority space programs — making early detection of enemy missile launches — was successfully delivered into orbit Friday by an Atlas 5 rocket. The United Launch Alliance booster, flying its its basic two-stage varient, gracefully climbed from Complex 41 at…
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Video: Missile alert satellite launches atop Atlas 5
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 189 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, unleashes 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine to launch the SBIRS GEO Flight 3 early-warning satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Launch preparations See earlier SBIRS GEO Flight 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Another SBIRS soars atop Atlas 5
The Atlas 5 rocket lifted the SBIRS GEO Flight 3 missile warning sentinel into orbit, advancing space technology for surveillance and security. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images See earlier SBIRS GEO Flight 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: First ULA mission of the year blasts off
Marking United Launch Alliance’s first rocket flight in 2017, beginning its year of national security and science-enabling missions, the Atlas 5 rocket departs Cape Canaveral carrying the SBIRS GEO Flight 3 satellite. Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier SBIRS GEO Flight 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket receives its payload for Jan. 19 launch
The third Space Base Infrared Systems Geosynchronous Earth Orbit, or SBIRS GEO Flight 3, was hoisted atop the Atlas 5 on Jan.12 to complete the pre-flight assembly of the 189-foot-tall rocket for launch. The United Launch Alliance booster will deploy U.S. military satellite on Jan. 19, departing from Cape Canaveral during a 40-minute launch window…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rolled out with SBIRS GEO Flight 3
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was transfered from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 today for Thursday’s launch of the U.S. military’s third SBIRS GEO missile warning satellite. Liftoff is planned for 7:46 p.m. EST (0046 GMT). The rocket was wheeled out aboard a mobile launcher platform, emerging…
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Timeline: Atlas 5/SBIRS GEO Flight 3 ascent events
This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with the SBIRS GEO Flight 3 satellite for U.S. military infrared reconnaissance. Launch is scheduled for Thursday at 7:46 p.m. EST (0046 GMT). T+00:01.1 Liftoff With the RD-180 main engine running, the Atlas 5 vehicle lifts…
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Preview: Advanced missile detection satellite for early-warning alerts awaits liftoff
The mission patch. Credit: Air Force CAPE CANAVERAL — Culminating years of construction and testing, a $1.2 billion satellite designed to spot and track enemy missiles threatening the United States homeland, its deployed military forces abroad or allied nations will ascend to a surveillance post in space Thursday. A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket…
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Weather forecast now 80 percent ‘go’ for Thursday’s Atlas 5 rocket launch
Credit: United Launch Alliance Note: Updated Monday with improved forecast details CAPE CANAVERAL — Meteorologists are anticipating favorable odds of good weather during the countdown to launch an Atlas 5 rocket and U.S. military satellite on Thursday evening from Cape Canaveral. The day’s 40-minute launch opportunity that is timed to deliver the satellite into the…