Tag: Lift and mate
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Photos: Navy satellite joins Atlas booster rocket for launch
This photo gallery shows the U.S. Navy’s fourth Mobile User Objective System communications satellite, already encapsulated in the 18-foot-diameter nose cone, being lifted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur rocket Wednesday, Aug. 19 at the Vertical Integration Facility. Launch is planned for Aug. 31 during a window of 6:07 to 6:51 a.m. EDT. Photo credit:…
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Heavy cargo mounted atop Atlas 5 rocket for upcoming launch
File photo. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Hoisting a 15,000-pound satellite atop an Atlas 5 rocket today, United Launch Alliance finished assembling its next space-bound booster for liftoff Aug. 31 in support of the U.S. Navy. The launch will deliver into orbit the Mobile User Objective System communications satellite No. 4 to expand the Navy’s…
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Air Force communications satellite joined to Delta 4 for July 22 launch
File photo of WGS satellite being mated to Delta 4. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — For the second time this week, United Launch Alliance has delivered an Air Force payload to one of its Cape Canaveral pads for liftoff in July. On Monday, crews mounted the next Global Positioning System satellite atop an Atlas 5…
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Next GPS satellite moves closer to launch date
File photo of GPS hoisting atop Atlas. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Joining the payload with its ride to space, United Launch Alliance crews today placed the next Global Positioning System satellite atop an Atlas 5 rocket for blastoff July 15. The Air Force’s GPS 2F-10 navigation spacecraft will be boosted 11,000 nautical miles above…
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Photos: Atlas 5 and X-37B mated together for upcoming launch
CAPE CANAVERAL — The Air Force’s miniature space shuttle and its ride to orbit have been joined together inside an assembly building at Cape Canaveral in preparation for launch May 20. The X-37B spaceplane will be boosted into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, flying in its 501 varient with a big…
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Photos: Shroud installed around satellite quartet, connected to Atlas 5
NASA’s four Magnetospheric Multiscale mission spacecraft were encapsulated Monday, Feb. 23 in the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket’s 45-foot-tall, 14-foot-diameter nose cone inside Building 9 at the commercial Astrotech processing campus in Titusville. In preparation for being encapsulated, team members removed over 700 protective covers from the spacecraft over the previous four days, working…
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Four satellites mated to Atlas 5 rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL — Four NASA satellites that will create a constellation of formation-flying spacecraft were placed aboard their shared United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket Friday. Liftoff of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, is targeted for March 12 at 10:44 p.m. EDT (0244 GMT), the opening of a 30-minute nighttime launch opportunity. Already…