Tag: Complex 37B
-
Photos: Delta 4-Heavy revealed for solar probe launch
Credit: Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now These photos taken Friday evening show the mobile gantry being wheeled away from a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral, hours before its scheduled blastoff with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. The rollback of the Mobile Service Tower at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37B launch pad occurred shortly after 7…
-
Delta 4-Heavy launch timeline with Parker Solar Probe
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket, crowned by a solid-fueled upper stage kick motor, will send NASA’s Parker Solar Probe on a speedy voyage through the inner solar system following liftoff from Cape Canaveral. The 233-foot-tall (71-meter) launcher is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37B launch pad powered by three Aerojet Rocketdyne…
-
Live coverage: Delta 4-Heavy launches with NASA solar probe
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. NASA TV’s live video webcast begins at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT), and will be available on this page.
-
Watch the Parker Solar Probe pre-launch mission briefing
NASA held a pre-launch briefing for the Parker Solar Probe mission on Thursday, August 9, 2018, at the Kennedy Space Center. The participants were: Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator, NASA Science Mission Directorate Nicola Fox, Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist Andrew Driesman, Project Manager, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Omar Baez, Launch Director, NASA Kennedy Space…
-
Photos: Parker Solar Probe closed up inside Delta 4 fairing for launch
Ready for a journey into the sun’s enigmatic, scorching corona, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has been encapsulated inside the nose cone of its Delta 4-Heavy rocket for liftoff Saturday. These photos show the solar-powered probe’s enclosure inside the Delta 4 fairing at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida, last month. Ground crews transported…
-
Parker Solar Probe cleared for launch to ‘touch the sun’
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. Credit: JHUAPL NASA managers Thursday cleared the $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe for launch early Saturday on a daring mission to “touch the sun,” repeatedly flying through its outer atmosphere to find out why the blazing corona is millions of degrees hotter…