Justin Ray – Page 54 – Spaceflight Now

OTD…Aug. 7 and STS-85

August 7, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 1997…Discovery launched to deploy and later retrieve the CRISTA-SPAS atmospheric research satellite

Atlas 5 rocket awarded commercial launch for EchoStar

August 5, 2015 Justin Ray

A powerhouse Internet-from-space communications satellite will be launched from the Cape next year atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, officials announced Wednesday.

OTD…Aug. 2 and STS-43

August 2, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 1991…Atlantis launched another of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites

Atlas 5 team begins stacking most powerful variant for Navy launch

July 31, 2015 Justin Ray

Continuing a run of military satellite deployments this summer, United Launch Alliance has begun stacking the Atlas 5 rocket that will boost the Navy’s next mobile communications craft.

OTD…July 31 and STS-46

July 31, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 1992…Atlantis launched to test the Tethered Satellite System

OTD…July 29 and STS-51F

July 29, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 1985…Challenger suffered an engine shutdown on her way to orbit for a Spacelab mission

OTD…July 26 and STS-114

July 26, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 2005…Discovery launched on the first space shuttle mission after the Columbia tragedy

Video: Delta 4 launch highlights

July 25, 2015 Justin Ray

This is the launch highlights reel from United Launch Alliance of the Delta 4 rocket carrying the seventh satellite for the Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM constellation.

Photos: Delta 4 rocket fires off the pad before sunset

July 24, 2015 Justin Ray

View photos of Thursday’s spectacular sunset launch from Cape Canaveral of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s seventh Wideband Global SATCOM communications platform.

Seventh satellite in Air Force’s WGS series launched

July 24, 2015 Justin Ray

A U.S. military satellite that will fortify the “anytime, anywhere” communications infrastructure used by soldiers, ships, aircraft and drones was launched into orbit Thursday to improve the global connectivity that encompasses the planet.