By Mike Killian, on November 7th, 2020
Atlas V with NROL-101 awaits launch before being moved off the pad for Tropical Depression Eta. Photo: Jeff Seibert / AmericaSpace
ULA and their Atlas V rocket with its classified NROL-101 payload onboard will wait at least a few more days before another launch attempt, as the company has moved the booster off its […]
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By Mike Killian, on November 6th, 2020
Inside SpaceX’s Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite is being encapsulated in the SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing on Nov. 3, 2020. Photo: NASA
NASA and ESA’s next Earth Observing science mission aims to better understand sea level rise and how it changes […]
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By Mike Killian, on August 30th, 2020
SpaceX is targeting launch of SAOCOM 1B at 7:18 p.m. EDT tonight. Weather continues to be 40% favorable for liftoff. Photo: SpaceX
A day of possible launch double-headers for SpaceX is no more, as poor weather on Florida’s Space Coast has already scrubbed the first mission off Kennedy Space Center’s historic pad 39A, where […]
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By Mike Killian, on August 29th, 2020
Falcon 9 launch off SLC-40. Photo: Jeff Seibert / AmericaSpace
United Launch Alliance scrubbed their latest launch attempt with NROL-44 for a second time overnight, and will now stand down for the next week, giving SpaceX the eastern range to launch their next batch of Starlinks from Kennedy Space Center LC-39A at 10:12 a.m. […]
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By Ben Evans, on June 10th, 2020
The ULA Atlas V 541 rocket saw its maiden launch in November 2011, delivering NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover to the Red Planet. NASA’s next Mars Rover, Perseverance, is scheduled to launch on the same rocket as soon as July 20, 2020. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com
Less than a month since […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 17th, 2020
Atlas V lifts off from Cape Canaveral with the X-37B OTV spaceplane on the USSF-7 mission. Credit: ULA
Following a one-day scrub on Saturday, United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully despatched its third Atlas V of the year early Sunday, 17 May, to deliver the highly secretive X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) mini-shuttle into low-Earth […]
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By Ben Evans, on April 21st, 2020
With a more favorable weather forecast for launch and landing, SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, April 22 at 3:37 p.m. EDT for this week’s Falcon 9 Starlink mission. Photo: SpaceX
For the fifth occasion in less than six months, SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 booster core for the fourth time on Wednesday, 22 April, […]
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By Ben Evans, on March 26th, 2020
The first mission under the newly formed U.S. Space Force took flight today from Cape Canaveral, FL, as a ULA Atlas V rocket launched the AEHF-6 SATCOM. Photo: ULA
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully delivered its first major payload on behalf of the newly-formed U.S. Space Force, following Thursday afternoon’s spectacular 4:18 p.m. […]
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By Ben Evans, on March 18th, 2020
Starlink-5 mission launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from KSC pad 39A. Photo: Jeff Seibert / AmericaSpace.com
This morning, SpaceX’s rocket ‘B1048’ flew its fifth and final mission, deploying the company’s fifth batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. And while the primary mission went well, the […]
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By Ben Evans, on March 13th, 2020
Sunday’s launch will mark the fifth flight of this particular booster. Photo: SpaceX
UPDATE – Launch was aborted just before liftoff. No word yet on a new date for the next launch attempt.
For the first time on Sunday, a five-times-used Falcon 9 booster will spear aloft from historic Pad 39A at the […]
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