Tag: Launch
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Recap story: New bird flies for GPS navigation network
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Climbing away from Earth on the power of its liquid hydrogen-fueled main engine and twin solid rockets, a Delta 4 booster successfully launched a new Global Positioning System satellite Wednesday to benefit U.S. military operations and civilian society as a whole. “This thing called GPS is such a treasure to…
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Photos: Delta 4’s foggy launch
The 721,000-pound United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket launches on-time at 2:36 p.m. EDT into a deck of low-hanging clouds over Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite. Credit: Tim Dodd Photography
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Photos: Atlas 5/MMS launch gallery
Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC
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Recap story: Atlas 5 rocket launches NASA satellite quartet
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Four magnetic explosion probes in a towering stack atop an Atlas 5 rocket rode a fountain of flame off the launch pad and into Earth orbit Thursday night for a $1.1 billion NASA science investigation into a universal force of nature. The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, lifted off at…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 blasts off with four NASA satellites
Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Video: Progress launches and docks
The Russian Progress 58P cargo freighter launches and six hours later docks to the International Space Station.
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Video: Falcon 9 launch replays
Various alternate camera angles capture the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with the Deep Space Climate Observatory.
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Photos: Falcon 9 launch from Press Site
Launch of Falcon from the Turn Basin at the NASA-KSC Press Site. Credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now
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Video: Falcon 9 launch of DSCOVR
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with the Deep Space Climate Observatory, beginning a new day in space weather forecasting. Liftoff occurred at 6:03:32 p.m. EST on Feb. 11.
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Photos: Gallery of Delta 2 launch
The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket lifts off with NASA’s SMAP observatory at 6:22 a.m. local time on Saturday, Jan. 31 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Photo credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Photo