Tag: Launch
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Photos: Atlas 5 launches new weather observer
Launching the high-tech GOES-R satellite to revolutionize U.S. weather forecasting, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thunders away from Cape Canaveral on Saturday at 6:42 p.m. EST (2342 GMT). Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier GOES-R coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Video: Soyuz launches three-person international crew
The Russian Soyuz MS-03 crew transport spacecraft is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with three passengers on a two-day trek to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russia’s Oleg Novitskiy and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will join the station’s existing three-person Expedition 50 crew.
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Photos: Liftoff of Atlas 5 from California
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket departs Vandenberg Air Force Base today at 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT) to deliver the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite into polar orbit for DigitalGlobe. Credit: Gene Blevins / LA Daily News See earlier WorldView 4 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Atlas 5 soars for commercial satellite delivery
Launching the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thunders away from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base today at 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT). Credit: Gene Blevins / LA Daily News See earlier WorldView 4 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Commercial satellite launched to image the Earth in high-resolution
A companion to the world’s most powerful private Earth-imaging satellite rocketed into space today from the U.S. west coast atop an Atlas 5 to double the amount of high-resolution imagery available on the commercial market and satisfy the demands of customers clamoring for more. The 10-year mission of the WorldView 4 satellite began at 10:30:33…
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Video: Liftoff of WorldView 4 aboard Atlas 5 rocket
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 189 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, unleashes 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine at 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT) today to launch the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. See earlier WorldView…
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Video: Expedition 49 crew launches to the International Space Station
Watch the launch of Expedition 49, a three-man crew headed for the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Video: Antares rocket returns to flight with new engines
The Antares rocket, Orbital ATK’s medium-class booster now with modern RD-181 engines, launches at 7:45 p.m. EDT (2345 GMT) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia. Pad camera replay Close up view
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Video: Post-launch news conference
An hour after OSIRIS-REx separated from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on its trajectory to Asteroid Bennu, officials from NASA, the University of Arizona, ULA and Lockheed Martin held the post-launch news conference from Kennedy Space Center. See earlier OSIRIS-REx coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Video: NASA mission launched to return sample of asteroid
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 189 feet tall and and weighing 840,000 pounds, unleashes 1.2 million pounds of thrust from its main engine and one side-mounted booster at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT) Thursday to launch NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to Asteroid Bennu. See earlier OSIRIS-REx coverage. Our Atlas archive.