Tag: Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Uncontrolled wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base continues to rage
Updated Tuesday @ 1600 GMT with new acreage and containment numbers; adding IR maps Flames burn behind the Atlas 5 rocket pad Monday. Credit: Santa Barbara County Fire Dept. The escalating wildfire at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base grew even larger Monday despite the round-the-clock efforts of firefighters trying to bring the blaze under control…
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Atlas 5 launch postponed by wildfire, Range availability until Sept. 26
(Launch webcast begins at 11:05 a.m. PDT / 2:05 p.m. EDT / 1805 GMT) Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket on the pad with WorldView 4 satellite
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket stands atop Space Launch Complex 3-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on the eve of Friday’s WorldView 4 mission. Photo credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News See earlier WorldView 4 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Atlas 5/WorldView 4 launch timeline
This is the ascent timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 11:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. EDT; 1830 GMT). T+0:00:01.1: Liftoff The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5…
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Photos: WorldView 4 satellite’s road to launch
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 4 commercial satellite, which will join sister-spacecraft WorldView 3 in orbit to snap the highest quality Earth imagery available on the market at 31-centimeter resolution, was built by Lockheed Martin and will be launched Friday atop an Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. On July 21, WorldView 4 was tucked…
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Idled by Range facility rework for months, Vandenberg ready to launch again Friday
File photo of Atlas 5 at Vandenberg. Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA Resuming space launches from the U.S. Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after a half-year infrastructure outage, an Atlas 5 rocket will boost a commercial Earth-imaging bird into orbit on Friday. Using the same United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 built and stacked…
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Delta 2 rocket being assembled at Vandenberg for penultimate launch
The step-by-step Delta 2 assembly process. Photos by NASA The next-to-last Delta 2 rocket is being stacked at its California launch site to take flight in January to put a civilian weather satellite into polar orbit. The first stage, interstage, nine strap-on boosters and second stage of the United Launch Alliance rocket are being pieced…
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SpaceX narrowly misses booster landing at sea
Falcon lands on droneship, but the lockout collet doesn’t latch on one the four legs, causing it to tip over post landing. Root cause may have been ice buildup due to condensation from heavy fog at liftoff. A video posted by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Jan 17, 2016 at 7:07pm PST One of four landing…
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Video released from Atlas 5 rocket launch of cubesat flock
Remarkable rocketcam video footage of the Oct. 8 flight a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from California has been released to show its hitchhiker cubesat payloads shooting into orbit. The mission blasted off before dawn from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the classified NROL-55 flight for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The video begins…
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Seattle company buys big rocket for little satellites
Artist’s concept of Spaceflight Industries’ Sherpa multi-payload space tug, set for a debut mission next year. Credit: Spaceflight Industries Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries has purchased a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for launch in 2017 with a mash-up of satellites in the first such commercial arrangement for a rideshare mission on a U.S. launcher, the company announced…