Tag: Launch
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Live coverage: Rocket Lab launches experimental satellite for DARPA
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying DARPA’s Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2) satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Rocket Lab’s live video webcast begins around 15 minutes prior to launch, and will be…
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Rocket Lab readies for launch with U.S. military satellite
The Electron rocket’s payload shroud for the R3D2 mission. Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab teams in New Zealand are preparing for the company’s first launch of the year Sunday (U.S. time) with a small experimental satellite for DARPA, the U.S. military’s research and development agency. Liftoff of Rocket Lab’s two-stage Electron rocket from the company’s…
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All-Italian launch from French Guiana lofts innovative environmental satellite
A Vega rocket lifted off from French Guiana at 10:50 p.m. local time (9:50 p.m. EDT) Thursday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin A Vega rocket fired into orbit Thursday night from French Guiana with Italy’s PRISMA hyperspectral Earth-imaging satellite, commencing a busy period for the Vega launcher program as…
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Two Minotaur launches planned this year from Virginia
File photo of a Minotaur 5 launch in 2013 from pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems Northrop Grumman is gearing up for up to four launches this year at Wallops Island, Virginia, including two launches with Cygnus cargo ships heading to…
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Vega launch timeline with PRISMA
The Italian PRISMA Earth observation satellite is set to ride a Vega launcher into a 382-mile-high (615-kilometer) orbit Thursday night from French Guiana on a mission that will take less than one hour from liftoff until spacecraft separation. Liftoff is scheduled for March 21 at 9:50:35 p.m. EDT (0150:35 GMT on March 22) from the…
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Live coverage: Vega rocket launches with Italian hyperspectral imaging satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Vega rocket with the PRISMA hyperspectral imaging satellite for ASI, the Italian Space Agency. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video webcast begins at approximately 0130 GMT (9:30 p.m. EDT), and will be available on this page.
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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…