The final building block in a critical global missile warning system operated by the Pentagon took flight on Friday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasting off into the night over Florida’s Cape Canaveral.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 rocket, flying with a single Solid Rocket Booster, lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 0:48 UTC on January 20, 2018 with the fourth satellite of the Space Based Infrared System
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 rocket, flying with a single Solid Rocket Booster, lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 0:48 UTC on January 20, 2018 with the fourth satellite of the Space Based Infrared System,
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A single-booster Atlas V rocket carrying the fourth satellite of the SBIRS Missile Warning System had to back out of its launch countdown on Thursday after technical trouble struck
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A ULA Atlas V rocket rolled to its Cape Canaveral Launch Pad on Wednesday in preparation for a thunderous nighttime liftoff on Thursday to lift the fourth SBIRS missile-warning satellite into orbit to complete a constellation capable of spotting anything from tactical missiles to tracking the path of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.
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Lockheed Martin announced this week that the SBIRS GEO-3 missile warning satellite has reached Geostationary Orbit and delivered its first light images, the first step in a multi-month commissioning campaign to ready the satellite for operation.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket thundered off from Cape Canaveral Friday night, carrying into orbit a crucial missile warning satellite for the U.S. defense forces to keep watch over potentially dangerous missile launches affecting the U.S. homeland and forces stationed abroad.
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A United Launch Alliance launched from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 0:42 UTC on January 21, 2017 on a mission to deliver the 1.2-billion SBIRS-GEO 3 satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit to join the U.S. Air Force Space-Based Infrared System.
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A United Launch Alliance launched from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 0:42 UTC on January 21, 2017 on a mission to deliver the 1.2-billion SBIRS-GEO 3 satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit to join the U.S. Air Force Space-Based Infrared System.
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ULA’s Atlas V rocket stood fully fueled atop its Cape Canaveral launch pad Thursday night, but was grounded late in its countdown due to a technical issue holding up the planned liftoff with a $1.2 billion missile warning satellite and a wayward aircraft causing a violation on the Eastern Range in the day’s last attempt to get the workhorse launcher off the ground.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V was rolled to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral to set up for the rocket’s first mission of the year on Thursday, the delivery of a vital asset for U.S. Defense Forces.
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Work is currently underway by several private and government entities to diagnose what might be a systemic issue in satellite propulsion systems in use for different programs.
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