Tag: Launch
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Progress supply ship docks with space station after last-minute misalignment
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) after docking. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifts off Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the Progress MS-15 supply ship heading for the International Space Station. Credit: Roscosmos Completing a fast-track, three-hour pursuit of the International Space Station, a Russian Progress supply ship overcame a last-minute misalignment and autonomously…
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Plutonium power source installed on NASA’s next Mars rover
Artist’s concept of the Perseverance rover on Mars. Credit: NASA The nuclear power generator for NASA’s Perseverance rover has been installed on the spacecraft atop an Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral, and mission managers gave a green light Wednesday to continue preparations for the rover’s July 30 launch toward Mars. The rover’s Multi-Mission Radioisotope…
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Plutonium power source installed on NASA’s next Mars rover
Artist’s concept of the Perseverance rover on Mars. Credit: NASA The nuclear power generator for NASA’s Perseverance rover has been installed on the spacecraft atop an Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral, and mission managers gave a green light Wednesday to continue preparations for the rover’s July 30 launch toward Mars. The rover’s Multi-Mission Radioisotope…
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Soyuz rocket raised on Baikonur launch pad for space station resupply flight
A Russian Soyuz rocket rolled out to a launch pad Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ready for final inspections, checkouts and fueling before liftoff Thursday with a Progress supply ship bound for the International Space Station. The Soyuz-2.1a launcher emerged from a hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome just after sunrise Monday, riding…
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Soyuz rocket raised on Baikonur launch pad for space station resupply flight
A Russian Soyuz rocket rolled out to a launch pad Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ready for final inspections, checkouts and fueling before liftoff Thursday with a Progress supply ship bound for the International Space Station. The Soyuz-2.1a launcher emerged from a hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome just after sunrise Monday, riding…
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Photos: Minotaur rocket vaults into orbit from Virginia
Riding a half-million pounds of thrust, a Minotaur 4 rocket fired off a launch pad in Virginia, surpassed the speed of sound in less than 20 seconds, and vaulted into orbit Wednesday with four classified payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office. The 78-foot-tall (23.8-meter) Minotaur 4 rocket launched at 9:46 a.m. EDT (1346 GMT) Wednesday…
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Minotaur rocket successfully deploys four NRO satellites in orbit
A Minotaur 4 rocket fires into a mostly sunny sky Wednesday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: Northrop Grumman/Thom Baur A solid-fueled Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 rocket vaulted into orbit Wednesday from Virginia’s Eastern Shore and deployed four top secret spacecraft for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency, extending the program’s…
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Photos: Minotaur 4 rocket ready for launch from Virginia
A 78-foot-tall (23.8-meter) Minotaur 4 rocket is poised for liftoff Wednesday from Virginia’s Eastern Shore carrying four top secret payloads into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office. The Northrop Grumman-built rocket, using three retired Peacekeeper missile stages and a commercial solid rocket motor upper stage, is standing on pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport,…
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Minotaur rocket ready to launch four payloads for U.S. spy satellite agency
Four NRO payloads are enclosed inside the Minotaur 4 rocket’s payload fairing for launch Wednesday from Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NRO/Northrop Grumman Four clandestine payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office are awaiting liftoff Wednesday from Wallops Island, Virginia, on a Minotaur 4 rocket powered by Cold War-era missile stages stored for more than 30 years…
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Live coverage: Minotaur 4 rocket launches from Virginia
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. The mission will launch four payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office. Follow us on Twitter. A live video stream of the Minotaur 4 launch will be available on this page beginning at 8:30…