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Live coverage: SpaceX conducts second static fire test ahead of Amos 17 launch
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch the Amos 17 commercial communications satellite for Spacecom Ltd. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket fires its engines Wednesday at pad…
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Investigators conclude external forces killed an Intelsat satellite in April
Artist’s concept of the Intelsat 29e satellite with antennas and solar panels unfurled. Credit: Intelsat Investigators probing the sudden failure of the Boeing-built Intelsat 29e geostationary relay station in April have concluded an electrostatic discharge, aggravated by a harness flaw on the spacecraft, or a micrometeoroid strike prematurely ended the satellite’s mission, resulting in a…
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Intelsat declares drifting satellite total loss
Workers mount the Intelsat 29e communications satellite atop an Ariane 5 launcher in French Guiana on Jan. 18, 2016, in preparation for its launch later that month. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon Intelsat has declared the Intelsat 29e communications satellite a total loss after the Boeing-built spacecraft suffered a…
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Stricken with fuel leak, Intelsat 29e seen drifting in geostationary orbit
A Boeing-built Intelsat communications satellite launched three years ago is drifting in geostationary orbit after suffering a fuel leak and releasing debris fragments last week, according to an analysis by space surveillance experts. Ground-based telescopes operated by ExoAnalytic Solutions, a commercial company that tracks objects in space with a network of optical telescopes, show…
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Photos: Delta 4 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral
A hydrogen-fueled main engine and four solid rocket boosters combined to propel a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket off its launch pad at Cape Canaveral on March 15, successfully sending a U.S. Air Force communications satellite into orbit. The Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68A main engine and the four solid-fueled boosters, built by Northrop Grumman, generated…
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Delta 4 rocket launches Air Force’s 10th WGS broadband satellite
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rockets lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Friday with the U.S. Air Force’s tenth Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now United Launch Alliance placed a new satellite in orbit with a fiery Friday night blastoff from Cape Canaveral, using…
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Live coverage: Delta 4 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s tenth Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ULA’s live video coverage of the Delta 4 launch will begin March 15 at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT). We will…
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Photos: Mobile gantry retracted at Delta 4 launch pad
These photos show the 330-foot-tall mobile service tower moving into position for liftoff of a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37B launch pad Friday. The 218-foot-tall (66-meter) rocket is set for liftoff during a launch window opening at 6:56 p.m. EDT (2256 GMT) and extending to 9:05 p.m. EDT (0105 GMT). The mission’s…
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Delta 4 rocket’s launch timeline with WGS 10
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will deliver the U.S. Air Force’s tenth Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite to a supersynchronous transfer orbit around 37 minutes after lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff is scheduled during a launch window opening at 6:56 p.m. EDT (2256 GMT) Friday. The window extends to 9:05 p.m. EDT…
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ULA plans to ring in the weekend with Friday evening launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) on March 14 with new weather forecast. The Delta 4 rocket’s payload fairing, containing the U.S. Air Force’s WGS 10 communications satellites, is readied for mounting atop the launcher Feb. 26 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance ground…