Tag: SBIRS GEO Flight 4
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Photos: Atlas 5 takes off with SBIRS GEO Flight 4
Revisit Friday night’s blastoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SBIRS GEO Flight 4, the fourth in an upgraded line of U.S. Air Force missile detection and warning satellites. The 189-foot-tall Atlas 5, fitted with a solid rocket booster for extra thrust, lifted off at 7:48 p.m. EST Friday…
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U.S. military satellite launched to fortify against missile attacks
An Atlas 5 rocket streaks east from Cape Canaveral with the SBIRS GEO Flight 4 satellite in this long exposure photo. Credit: ULA A billion-dollar U.S. military satellite rode a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket into orbit Friday night from Cape Canaveral, joining a network of space sentinels warning of threatening missile launches from…
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Video: ULA highlights reel from Friday night’s Atlas 5 launch
United Launch Alliance has packed two days of rollout, countdown and launch activities into a two-minute video highlighting Friday night’s blastoff of an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the U.S. Air Force’s SBIRS GEO Flight 4 missile-warning satellite. The 189-foot-tall rocket lifted off at 7:48 p.m. EST Friday (0048 GMT Saturday) from Cape…
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Video: ULA highlights reel from Friday night’s Atlas 5 launch
United Launch Alliance has packed two days of rollout, countdown and launch activities into a two-minute video highlighting Friday night’s blastoff of an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the U.S. Air Force’s SBIRS GEO Flight 4 missile-warning satellite. The 189-foot-tall rocket lifted off at 7:48 p.m. EST Friday (0048 GMT Saturday) from Cape…
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Replay: Atlas 5 launches missile warning satellite
Watch a replay of the launch of an Atlas 5 rocket carrying the $1.2 billion SBIRS GEO Flight 4 satellite into orbit. Video: United Launch Alliance.
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Atlas 5 team scrubs launch to study troublesome valve
Credit: ULA Launch of an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral with a U.S. Air Force infrared surveillance satellite was scrubbed Thursday evening after engineers encountered a balky valve associated with the first stage’s liquid oxygen system. United Launch Alliance, a 50-50 joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, said the problem was narrowed to…
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Photos: Ground crews roll 75th Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad
The 75th Atlas 5 rocket rolled to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, a day before it was scheduled to lift off with a U.S. Air Force satellite to provide warnings of missile launches that might threaten U.S. territories and allies. The 189-foot-tall United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket rode a mobile launch…
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Rocket and satellite preps on track for next Atlas 5 launch
File photo of an Atlas 5 first stage booster being raised at the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: ULA Final assembly of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket slated to blast off Jan. 18 with a U.S. Air Force surveillance satellite designed to detect missile attacks has begun…
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Two U.S. military satellite launches delayed into next year
An Atlas 5-411 will launch the SBIRS GEO Flight 4 satellite in January. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — Two U.S. military satellite launches planned for this fall from Cape Canaveral are being delayed to 2018 due to separate factors, the Air Force says. The fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency protected communications spacecraft and…