Tag: NASA
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ULA chief explains reusability and innovation of new rocket
A sample illustration of mid-air recovery of main engine section. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — United Launch Alliance will salvage the main engines through a mid-air recovery plan and reuse them again aboard the company’s new Vulcan rocket, saving 90 percent in booster propulsion costs, the company announced Monday. It is dubbed SMART Reuse, or…
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Artwork: ULA Vulcan rocket revealed
These are artist’s concepts and press conference briefing slides from the United Launch Alliance unveiling of its new Vulcan rocket to debut in 2019. Credit: ULA
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ULA unveils its future with the Vulcan rocket family
An artist’s concept of the Vulcan. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Meet the Vulcan, the next-generation rocket family brought to you by United Launch Alliance that comes with a bold reusability plan, multiple configurations for medium- to heavy-lift, all-American engines and serves as the eventual replacement for the historic Atlas and Delta rocket lines. ULA…
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It’s the final countdown to the launch of NASA’s Year in Space
Photo via NASA/Bill Ingalls/Astronaut Scott Kelly It’s about to happen: NASA’s “Year in Space” is set to take off today, as Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko begin their 12-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Coverage starts at 2:30 ET/11:30 PT, and takeoff is set for 3:42 p.m. ET/12:42 PT. You can watch it all on NASA…
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NASA posts gorgeous Aurora shots from International Space Station on Twitter
Photo Twitter/ NASA Happy morning after St. Patty’s Day! Are you hungover, a bit slow on the uptake? It’s OK. Sit back with your coffee and Advil and take in these shots, thanks to International Space Station astronauts and that geomagnetic storm that was kicking up havoc yesterday (no one was in danger or harmed):…
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NASA and Planetary Resources release asteroid-hunting desktop app, cite 15% boost in positive IDs
Ready to hunt for some asteroids? NASA and Planetary Resources have announced a new desktop app that incorporates algorithms from a contest that challenged researchers to detect asteroids with greater accuracy. The Asteroid Data Hunter app runs on Windows and Mac, with a Linux version coming soon. Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company based in Redmond, Wash.,…
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Snapshots from Atlas 5 launch
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off Thursday night with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale satellite quartet in a successful flight from Cape Canaveral. Credit: NASA TV
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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.