Tag: Lift and mate
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Photos: NROL-52 payload mounted atop Atlas 5 booster
This photo gallery shows the classified National Reconnaissance Office payload, already encapsulated in the 14-foot-diameter nose cone, being lifted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Vertical Integration Facility. This milestone was achieved on Sept. 26. Launch of NROL-52 is planned for Thursday, Oct. 5, at 4:07 a.m. EDT. Photo credit: United…
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Photos: NROL-42 payload joins Atlas 5 booster for launch
This photo gallery shows the classified National Reconnaissance Office payload, already encapsulated in the 18-foot-diameter nose cone, being lifted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 3-East pad. This milestone was achieved on Aug. 27. Launch of NROL-42 is planned for Thursday night, Sept. 21, at 10:38…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled to launch data relay satellite for NASA
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will boost NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M, or TDRS-M, into space arrived at Cape Canaveral on June 26 aboard the Delta Mariner cargo vessel from the production factory in Alabama. Flying in its basic two-stage configuration with no strap-on solids, the Atlas 5 was stacked aboard…
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Videos: Atlas 5 rocket stacked to launch Cygnus
This is video footage documenting stacking activities for the two-stage United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 194 feet tall, to boost the commercial Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo freighter to the International Space Station. Activities occurred at Cape Canaveral’s Vertical Integration Facility. Liftoff is scheduled for April 18 at 11:11 a.m. EDT (1511 GMT). Video…
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Photos: Cygnus spacecraft readied for launch to International Space Station
These photographs span March 9 through the 17th as the news media got an up-close viewing of the Orbital ATK commercial Cygnus cargo ship at Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Processing Facility, placement aboard a mobile transporter and delivery to the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket assembly building for hoisting and mating. Cygnus is…
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S.S. John Glenn vessel mounted atop Atlas 5 rocket for launch next week
Cygnus, as pictured last week, being prepped for encapsulation in Atlas 5 rocket’s nose cone. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images CAPE CANAVERAL — An eight-ton cargo ship destined for the International Space Station was hoisted aboard its United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur booster rocket today in preparation for liftoff to the orbiting laboratory next…
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Multimedia: WGS 9 readied for launch
This collection of photographs and videos shows the Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite No. 9 being encapsulated in the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 nose cone and hoisted atop the rocket for launch March 17 at 7:44 p.m. EDT (2344 GMT). Encapsulation occurred at the Astrotech processing facility on Feb. 14. Stacking atop the Delta…
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Delta 4 receives communications satellite payload for launch into space
The nine WGS mission patches. Credit: Air Force logos; Spaceflight Now graphic CAPE CANAVERAL — A military communications satellite, built with international funding from Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and New Zealand, has been stacked atop a Delta 4 rocket to launch into a worldwide information-relay network operated by the U.S. WGS 9, the ninth…
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Reconnaissance payload mounted atop Atlas 5 for California launch
File photo of Atlas 5 payload lift and mate at Space Launch Complex 3-East pad. Credit: United launch Alliance Rising from the ground and into the launch pad gantry, a clandestine U.S. national security payload was fitted atop its Atlas 5 booster rocket in California today for the ride into space on March 1. The…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket receives its payload for Jan. 19 launch
The third Space Base Infrared Systems Geosynchronous Earth Orbit, or SBIRS GEO Flight 3, was hoisted atop the Atlas 5 on Jan.12 to complete the pre-flight assembly of the 189-foot-tall rocket for launch. The United Launch Alliance booster will deploy U.S. military satellite on Jan. 19, departing from Cape Canaveral during a 40-minute launch window…