2015 – Page 20 – Spaceflight Now

Lockheed Martin targets up to four commercial Atlas 5s per year

October 14, 2015 Stephen Clark

Lockheed Martin’s launch services team hopes to lure up to four commercial customers per year to fly on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 booster as a stream of U.S. government missions is forecast to dry up starting in 2017, according to Lockheed Martin’s rocket sales chief.

OTD…Oct. 14 and Endeavour

October 14, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 2012…Shuttle reaches retirement roost in sunny SoCal

Q&A with Tory Bruno, ULA’s chief executive

October 13, 2015 Stephen Clark

Tory Bruno has held the top post at United Launch Alliance for a little more than a year, and it has been anything but business as usual for the top U.S. launch provider. He recently spoke with reporters at ULA’s Cape Canaveral launch control center.

Q&A with Steve Skladanek, president of Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services

October 13, 2015 Stephen Clark

Steve Skladanek leads Lockheed Martin’s rocket sales force charged with pushing the Atlas 5 rocket, which has largely been on the sidelines of the commercial launch business in recent years, on the global satellite market.

Proton rolled out for launch of Turkish satellite

October 13, 2015 Stephen Clark

Russian ground crews moved a Proton rocket to its launch pad in Kazakhstan on Tuesday for liftoff with a Japanese-built broadcasting platform for Turkey’s national telecom satellite operator Friday.

OTD…Oct. 13 and Endeavour

October 13, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 2012…Crowds cheer as Endeavour traverses though Los Angeles

Launch campaign begins for Europe’s trailblazing gravity probe

October 12, 2015 Stephen Clark

A compact European space probe, already fitted with a propulsive boost stage to send it a million miles from Earth, has arrived at its French Guiana launch base for liftoff in early December aboard a solid-fueled Vega rocket.

Atlas 5 for third launch this month begins coming together

October 12, 2015 Justin Ray

With its liftoff just 18 days away to deploy a new Global Positioning System satellite, stacking of the next United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket began Monday at the vertical assembly building outside Complex 41.

OTD…Oct. 12 and Endeavour

October 12, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 2012…Journey of shuttle Endeavour through Los Angeles begins

ULA selects launch pads for new Vulcan rocket

October 12, 2015 Stephen Clark

United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan rocket will lift off from the company’s existing Atlas 5 launch facilities in Florida and California, according to the company’s Vulcan program manager.