United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced on Monday the successful launch of its Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle carrying the NROL-82 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), marking the 143rd successful ULA launch to date with a 100 percent mission success rate. The rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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An Atlas V 531 rocket carrying a national security payload from the National Reconnaissance Office took off Nov. 13 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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United Launch Alliance has begun final preparations for its Atlas V vehicle ahead of launching a national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket has entered the final preparation phase ahead of the Mars 2020 mission in which NASA's Perseverance rover will conduct a probe of the Martian surface to support planetary research.
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United Launch Alliance is in the last stage of preparations for the launch of the second satellite that will provide the U.S. military with Global Positioning System III service.
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United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket will carry a cube satellite for the U.S. Air Force along with the service's fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite as a rideshare payload, Space News reported Monday.
Read More » United Launch Alliance has delivered its Atlas V rocket booster to Cape Canaveral, Fla., for a mission to send astronauts to the International Space Station, AL.com reported Thursday.
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United Launch Alliance's Delta IV rocket lifted off Friday carrying the U.S. Air Force's satellite communications platform designed to support U.S. forces and allied troops.
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United Launch Alliance is set to launch the U.S. Air Force's 10th wideband communications satellite using its Delta IV rocket on Friday.
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United Launch Alliance has begun final preparations to launch a Lockheed Martin-built military communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday at Cape Canaveral AF Station in Florida. ULA said Friday its Atlas V 551 rocket will carry the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency spacecraft designed to help command and tactical forces transmit data. …
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Jim Centore, group lead for orbital mission operations at Blue Origin, has said the company started to run tests on its BE-4 rocket engine in October 2017 at its facility in West Texas and will continue the testing phase over the next several months, SpaceNews reported Saturday. “We're getting longer …
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Boeing and Lockheed Martin‘s joint venture United Launch Alliance has updated the aerodynamic configuration of a rocket designed to launch a crew capsule Boeing is building for NASA‘s Commercial Crew Program. ULA said Thursday the new Atlas V configuration will incorporate an aeroskirt aft of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in efforts to extend the vehicle’s service module cylindrical surface and help manage loads margins …
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