Tag: AV-087
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Photos: Atlas 5 lifts off with Solar Orbiter
Take a look back at the Feb. 9 launch of a 189-foot-tall (57.6-meter) Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral carrying the European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Flying in a rarely-used configuration with a single strap-on solid rocket booster, the Atlas 5 took off at 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday (0403 GMT Monday) from pad 41 at Cape…
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Atlas 5 blasts off with Solar Orbiter
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION An Atlas 5 rocket lifted off at 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday (0403 GMT Monday) with the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Credit: United Launch Alliance Under a brilliant moon, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flashed to life and vaulted away from Cape Canaveral late Sunday, boosting the European…
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Atlas 5/Solar Orbiter launch timeline
This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with the European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft to study the sun. Launch is scheduled 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday (0403 GMT Monday) at the opening of a two-hour launch window. The 189-foot-tall (57.6-meter) rocket will arc to the…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 launches from Cape Canaveral with Solar Orbiter
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission developed in partnership with NASA. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. NASA TV’s live video coverage of the Atlas 5 launch will begin at 10:30 p.m. EST on Feb. 9 (0330 GMT on…
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Decades in the making, Solar Orbiter finally meets launcher at Cape Canaveral
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, cocooned inside the Atlas 5 rocket’s payload shroud, was attached atop the Atlas 5 launcher Friday after an early morning departure from a nearby payload processing facility. Credit: United Launch Alliance The European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft was installed on top of its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 launcher Friday at Cape…
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Solar Orbiter launch delayed to Feb. 7
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket — seen without the Solar Orbiter spacecraft on top — completed a practice countdown at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Friday, Jan. 24. Credit: United Launch Alliance Officials have delayed the launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket with the European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft from…
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Photos: Solar Orbiter encapsulated inside launch shroud
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was encapsulated inside the Atlas 5 rocket’s payload fairing Jan. 20. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky The Airbus-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft has been closed up inside the payload fairing of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in preparation for liftoff from Cape Canaveral in February on a joint mission between the European…
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ULA team completes countdown practice run before Solar Orbiter launch
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is pictured during a countdown dress rehearsal Friday at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance teams loaded super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into an Atlas 5 rocket Friday at Cape Canaveral during a countdown dress rehearsal for a planned launch…
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Atlas 5 for Solar Orbiter launch returns to assembly building for inspections
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket for the Solar Orbiter mission rolled out to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Tuesday, Jan. 21, for a planned wet dress rehearsal Wednesday. Credit: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance moved its next Atlas 5 rocket off its Florida launch pad Wednesday for inspections after a cooling…
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Stacking of ULA’s next Atlas 5 rocket begins at Cape Canaveral
United Launch Alliance teams began stacking an Atlas 5 rocket inside a vertical hangar at Cape Canaveral Monday in preparation for an early February launch with the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint U.S.-European probe that will take the first pictures of the sun’s poles. This week at Cape Canaveral’s Vertical Integration Facility, ULA technicians are…