Tag: Launch
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Meet the the Super Strypi launch vehicle
The U.S. Air Force has released the first-ever photos of the Super Strypi launch vehicle, a souped-up version of a Cold War-era sounding rocket about to be shot into orbit on a unique demonstration flight with 13 small satellites. The military previously only showed photos of a ground mockup of the Super Strypi. Sporting aerodynamic…
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Virgin Galactic in transition one year after fatal accident
Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo vehicle goes “weight on wheels” in Mojave in May. Credit: Virgin Galactic Last year’s fatal crash of Virgin Galactic’s suborbital rocket plane has delayed the start of the company’s commercial operations at least a year, prompting a change in mindset from a “period of euphoria to a period of real, measurable,…
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Photos: New GPS navigation satellite powered from Earth
A collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the Global Positioning System 2F-11 navigation satellite. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier GPS 2F-11 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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A month to remember for ULA and the Atlas 5 rocket
Morelos 3, NROL-55, GPS 2F-11. Photos by ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Four weeks, three launches, two coasts. October was an unprecedented month for United Launch Alliance and its venerable workhorse rocket. “Spectacular month, dizzying complexity. So proud of my people. No one matches this tempo, but they do it routinely,” said Tory Bruno, ULA’s president…
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Video: Halloween liftoff of Atlas 5 with GPS 2F-11
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Global Positioning System 2F-11 navigation spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida. See earlier GPS 2F-11 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Recap story: Three Atlas 5 launch successes in one month
CAPE CANAVERAL — Completing an October to remember, the third Atlas 5 rocket launch in just 29 days thundered into space today, this time to replace an aging satellite in the Global Positioning System. Launching a commercial telecommunications satellite for Mexico on Oct. 2, two formation-flying intelligence spacecraft for National Reconnaissance Office on Oct. 8…
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Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 on NROL-55
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the classified NROL-55 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. See earlier NROL-55 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Second Atlas 5 rocket launched in span of six days
CAPE CANAVERAL — Churning out the launches at a rapid pace, the Atlas 5 program sent another rocket soaring like clockwork today for deployment of a national security satellite duo from California. Blasting off precisely on-time at 5:49:30 a.m. local (8:49:30 a.m. EDT; 1249:30 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, it was the seventh Atlas…
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Photos: California’s predawn liftoff of Atlas 5 rocket
Making its second launch in just six days, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight blasted off Thursday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Photo Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News See earlier NROL-55 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket soars from West Coast
A collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight carrying the NROL-55 cargo for the National Reconnaissance Office. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier NROL-55 coverage. Our Atlas archive.