Tag: Operationally Responsive Space
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Build-up begins for first Minotaur rocket launch from Cape Canaveral
File photo of a Minotaur 4 rocket before a launch from Kodiak Island, Alaska. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Ground crews at a long-dormant launch pad at Cape Canaveral are stacking surplus military missile motors for the Aug. 25 launch of a Minotaur 4 rocket with a satellite designed to track orbital traffic thousands of miles…
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Launch of military’s new space-based satellite tracker delayed to August
Updated June 22. File photo of a Minotaur 4 rocket on a launch pad in Alaska before a launch in September 2011. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now The launch from Cape Canaveral of a small U.S. military satellite built to track objects in geosynchronous orbit has been delayed from mid-July until at least late August, an…
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Teams practice for Cape Canaveral’s first launch of Minotaur 4 rocket
The pathfinder vehicle stands atop Complex 46, enclosed by the mobile gantry. Credit: Ben Cooper/Spaceflight Now CAPE CANAVERAL — Three inert Peacekeeper missile stages have been stacked at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 46 pad, demonstrating the techniques that will be used to assemble a Minotaur 4 rocket to launch an experimental space surveillance satellite this summer.…
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Video clips show rocket anomaly high above Hawaii
Videos of Tuesday’s sunset liftoff of the U.S. Air Force’s Super Strypi launcher show the low-cost fin-guided rocket streaking into the skies over Hawaii and arcing downrange toward the south with 13 satellites before apparently losing control and breaking up. The rotating motion seen in a view from the rocket’s on-board camera is normal —…
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Air Force declares failure on Super Strypi test launch
The Super Strypi launch vehicle blasted off from a rail launch platform at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii at 0345 GMT Wednesday (10:45 p.m. EST; 5:45 p.m. HST). Credit: U.S. Air Force/University of Hawaii/Spaceflight Now The first flight of an experimental U.S. military rocket designed for low-cost, quick-reaction satellite launches ended…
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Hawaii’s first satellite launch set for Tuesday
The Super Strypi launch vehicle is fastened to a rail launch system at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Credit: U.S. Air Force U.S. military authorities have granted approval for liftoff Tuesday of a simplified satellite launcher from Hawaii on a test flight officials say will help drive down the costs of sending…
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Live coverage: Maiden flight of Super Strypi launcher fails
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of the first Super Strypi rocket on the U.S. Air Force’s ORS-4 mission with 13 small satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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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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Inaugural launch of small-class rocket on hold in Hawaii
Credit: U.S. Air Force The maiden test flight of a new rail-guided launcher from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, which was scheduled for Thursday, has been delayed while engineers resolve issues encountered in pre-launch preparations, a U.S. Air Force spokesperson said. The mission, managed by the Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space…
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Minotaur rocket selected to launch military satellite in 2017
File photo of an Orbital ATK Minotaur 4 rocket on a launch pad at Kodiak Island, Alaska. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Cape Canaveral will get its first Minotaur rocket launch in 2017, when the solid-fueled booster will send up a U.S. Air Force space surveillance satellite under a contract with Orbital ATK. An upgraded Minotaur…