Riding on pillars of smoke and flames, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral to lift into orbit the GOES-R next-generation weather satellite that will revolutionize the collection of meteorological data over the Western hemisphere.
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Riding on pillars of smoke and flames, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral to lift into orbit the GOES-R next-generation weather satellite that will revolutionize the collection of meteorological data over the Western hemisphere.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands ready atop its Cape Canaveral launch pad for liftoff with the GOES-R meteorological satellite to ring in a new era in weather forecasting.
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Cape Canaveral is preparing for a potentially historic hurricane impact as Matthew, growing into a major hurricane over the course of the week, is currently expected to take a path directly along Florida’s east coast Thursday night and into Friday.
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Three SmallSat operators in the United States have received contracts to deliver Earth Observation and meteorology data to the U.S. government, further cementing a trend of growing CubeSat and MicroSatellite use for operational applications in Low Earth Orbit.
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The DMSP-19 military weather satellite has been declared a complete loss after it was unresponsive to commands sent from the ground for over a month, caused by a failure within both communication chains of the spacecraft.
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SpaceX released a spectacular video showing how close the company’s Falcon 9 booster came on Sunday to sticking its first landing atop the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship.
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Making its second launch from the West Coast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-4E on Sunday, successfully delivering
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SpaceX can celebrate another successful mission, launching their Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday for its second west-coast mission – successfully placing into orbit the Jason-3 oceanography satellite in a U.S.-European collaboration.
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SpaceX was not able to achieve the company’s next milestone on Sunday when their Falcon 9 first stage booster came in hot and made a hard landing in the latest attempt to fly the rocket to the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship located in the Pacific Ocean.
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Timeline and Flight Data Reconstruction for the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of the Jason-3 satellite, Sunday, January 17, 2016
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Making its second launch from the West Coast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-4E on Sunday, successfully delivering the Jason-3 satellite to orbit after a 56-minute ascent mission to begin a mission dedicated to the continuation of a two-decade record of Ocean Altimetry, tracking currents and winds across the world’s oceans.
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The final Falcon 9 v1.1 rockets stands tall atop its West Coast launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force base to await its liftoff with the Jason-3 satellite.
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A fully assembled Falcon 9 rocket has been rolled to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base for the first time in over two years for Sunday’s planned launch of the U.S.-European Jason-3 Oceanography Satellite.
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Jason-3: Pre-Launch News Conferences
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The Jason-3 Oceanography Satellite completes final processing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to begin a mission to continue a two-decade record of global oceanography data.
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SpaceX is gearing up for the company’s first launch from the U.S. West Coast in over two years, also coinciding with the final mission of the Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle version – tasked with lifting the U.S.-European Jason-3 oceanography satellite.
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