Tag: Launch
-
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…
-
NASA signs off on SpaceX’s “load-and-go” procedure for crew launches
A prototype of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule completed a pad abort test at Cape Canaveral in May 2015. Credit: SpaceX The NASA manager overseeing development of Boeing and SpaceX’s commercial crew ferry ships says the space agency has approved SpaceX’s proposal to strap in astronauts atop Falcon 9 rockets, then fuel the launchers in the…
-
Photos: Previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket blasts off with Merah Putih satellite
A Falcon 9 rocket booster which first flew in May took off for the second time Tuesday from Cape Canaveral carrying the Indonesian Merah Putih communications satellite. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 1:18 a.m. EDT (0518 GMT) Tuesday on SpaceX’s 15th mission of the year. Turning…
-
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…
-
Indonesian communications satellite deployed in orbit by SpaceX
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 1:18 a.m. EDT (0518 GMT) Tuesday with the Merah Putih communications satellite. Credit: SpaceX Keeping up a run of middle-of-the-night launches from Cape Canaveral, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket powered by a recycled first stage booster climbed into orbit early Tuesday with the Indonesian Merah Putih communications satellite.…
-
Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the Merah Putih communications satellite for Telkom Indonesia. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX’s live video webcast begins around 15 minutes prior to launch, and will be available on this page.