Tag: GPS

  • Live coverage: Delta 4 rocket launches with GPS satellite

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    Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket with a new Global Positioning System satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Recap story: New bird flies for GPS navigation network

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    Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Climbing away from Earth on the power of its liquid hydrogen-fueled main engine and twin solid rockets, a Delta 4 booster successfully launched a new Global Positioning System satellite Wednesday to benefit U.S. military operations and civilian society as a whole. “This thing called GPS is such a treasure to…

  • Photos: Delta 4’s foggy launch

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    The 721,000-pound United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket launches on-time at 2:36 p.m. EDT into a deck of low-hanging clouds over Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite. Credit: Tim Dodd Photography

  • Photos: Delta 4 awaits blastoff

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    The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket sits peacefully inside its mobile service gantry on Tuesday afternoon, one day before its scheduled launch of the GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite. Credit: Justin Ray Credit: Justin Ray Credit: Tim Dodd Credit: Tim Dodd Credit: Tim Dodd

  • Preview: 10 months, 4 launches to finish GPS Block 2F deployment

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    Credit: Boeing   CAPE CANAVERAL — The final year of launches in the current breed of Global Positioning System navigation satellites kicks off Wednesday afternoon aboard a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral. GPS 2F-9 is slated for liftoff during a window of 2:36 to 2:54 p.m. EDT and will follow a flight azimuth of…

  • Photos: Next GPS satellite readied for launch

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    The U.S. Air Force’s ninth Global Positioning System (GPS) 2F satellite, GPS 2F-9, is encapsulated in the Delta 4 rocket’s four-meter-diameter nose cone at a processing facility and then moved to the launch pad at Complex 37 for mating to its booster inside the mobile service tower. Launch is March 25 at 2:36 p.m. EDT…

  • Delta/GPS 2F-9 launch timeline

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    This is the ascent timeline to be followed by the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket in launching the Air Force’s GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite on March 25 at 2:36 p.m. EDT. T-0:00:05.0: Ignition sequence start The RS-68 main engine begins to ignite as the liquid hydrogen fuel valve is opened, creating a large fireball…

  • Newest GPS satellite goes active

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    The fourth modernized Global Positioning System satellite launched this year has completed in-orbit testing and joined the constellation. Launched from Cape Canaveral atop a ULA Atlas 5 rocket on Oct. 29, the GPS 2F-8 satellite became an active member of the navigation network last Friday, Boeing announced Thursday. The Boeing-built Block 2F series of a…

  • Rocket cameras dazzle on 50th Atlas 5 rocket launch

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    The first stage separates from the Centaur upper stage. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Onboard video cameras captured critical events during Wednesday’s 50th Atlas 5 rocket launch, beaming back views in stunning clarity of staging and spacecraft separation. The United Launch Alliance booster lifted off at 1:21 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 in…

  • 50th Atlas 5 rocket puts up new GPS satellite

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    Image: United Launch Alliance. CAPE CANAVERAL — Launching for the 50th time, an Atlas 5 rocket flew a milestone mission Wednesday in deploying a Global Positioning System satellite for the worldwide utility. Blasting off exactly on-time at 1:21 p.m. EDT, it marked the 17th consecutive Atlas to have been fueled and launched on a single…