A powerful Atlas V rocket sporting four boosters will light up the night over California late on Thursday, aiming for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:38 UTC on Friday with the classified NROL-42 satellite
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One of the world’s prime space launch sites is bracing for its encounter with major Hurricane Irma – expected to move across Florida this weekend and bring with it extreme winds, torrential rain and dangerous storm surge.
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NASA’s TDRS-M satellite this week reached its high-altitude perch in Geosynchronous Orbit and completed all major deployment events on its solar arrays and antennas in preparation for a multi-month commissioning phase before entering an active role within the agency’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
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The rumble of an Atlas V rocket returned to Cape Canaveral on Friday after a four-month gap when ULA’s workhorse rocket blasted off with a critical reinforcement for NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, providing extension coverage to maintain the agency’s prime space communications program.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket lifted of from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 12:29 UTC on August 18, 2017, carrying into orbit NASA’s TDRS-M satellite
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket lifted of from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 12:29 UTC on August 18, 2017, carrying into orbit NASA’s TDRS-M satellite,
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A reinforcement for NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System stands ready for liftoff atop an Atlas V rocket on Friday to join the critical communications system used by the agency to keep in contact with Astronauts aboard the International Space Station, beam down images from the Hubble Space Telescope and relay data to and from critical Earth-observation satellites
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The launch date of NASA’s TDRS-M communications satellite was called into question on Friday when the 3,450-Kilogram satellite suffered possible damage to one of its critical antennas during final processing work in preparation for launch
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United Launch Alliance won a $191 million launch contract over SpaceX in an open competition for the Space Test Program 3 mission of the U.S. Air Force, targeting launch in 2019 according to documentation released by the Air Force on Thursday.
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The U.S. Air Force announced on Tuesday that the next mission of their X-37B reusable space plane would be launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in August.
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Blue Origin said Sunday that a set of powerpack hardware for the company’s BE-4 engine was lost as the result of a ground testing mishap, though no further information on any impacts on the planned BE-4 development program were clear at that point.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne completed its Critical Design Review of the company’s AR-1 engine and is on track for certification of the engine for test flights in 2019, the company said in a press release on Monday.
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A critical science-enabling cargo delivery to the International Space Station was successfully sent on its way on Tuesday when a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rumbled away from Florida’s Cape Canaveral to place the Cygnus cargo spacecraft into orbit.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket lifts of from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 on April 18, 2017 with the S.S. John Glenn, Orbital ATK’s seventh operational Cygnus cargo spacecraft
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A critical science-enabling cargo delivery to the International Space Station was successfully sent on its way on Tuesday when a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rumbled away from Florida’s Cape Canaveral to place the Cygnus cargo spacecraft into orbit.
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An Atlas V rocket is standing tall atop its launch pad at Florida’s Space Coast in preparation for liftoff on Tuesday with Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo ship
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolls out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 on April 17, 2017 in preparation for the launch of Orbital ATK’s seventh operational Cygnus resupply craft
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