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International Space Station cargo ship hoisted atop Atlas 5 rocket
Loaded with over 7,300 pounds of goods for the International Space Station, a commercial Cygnus cargo vessel was mounted atop its Atlas 5 rocket booster Friday for launch Dec. 3.
Photos: Cargo vessel enclosed in Atlas rocket nose cone
This photo gallery shows the commercial Cygnus cargo resupplier for the International Space Station on Monday at Kennedy Space Center being encapsulated in the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket’s payload fairing for the planned Dec. 3 liftoff.
Explained: Why Atlas 5 will have longer windows for station flights
Expanding a single instant in time to 30 minutes, the upcoming Atlas 5 rockets with Cygnus cargo-delivery freighters bound for the International Space Station will have an unprecedented opportunity available to launch each day.
ULA sits out Air Force launch competition
United Launch Alliance said Monday it did not submit a proposal in a competition to launch a U.S. Air Force GPS navigation satellite, apparently relinquishing the contract to rival SpaceX, the only other company certified to launch the mission.
Spacewalk snapshots show recent station EVAs
Clad in white spacesuits, astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren recently floated outside the International Space Station on a pair of spacewalks, and the duo carried cameras with them to document the excursions.
Station-bound cargo ship shown to press before launch
The Orbital ATK's Cygnus commercial resupply spacecraft, named the SS Deke Slayton II, is packed up and poised for launch to the International Space Station.
Stacking starts for Atlas 5 cargo run to space station with Cygnus
United Launch Alliance has begun stacking its first Atlas 5 rocket to fly in service to the International Space Station, a commercial mission to send supplies to the orbiting complex.
Radio bug to keep new Iridium satellites grounded until April
The first launch for Iridium's next-generation mobile communications fleet has been pushed back four months -- from December until April -- to resolve a technical problem inside the spacecraft's Ka-band communications payload.
Planning for December Falcon 9 launch, Orbcomm ships satellites
The first shipment of Orbcomm's 11-satellite payload for the Falcon 9 rocket's first flight since a June launch failure has arrived at Cape Canaveral, and the rest of the spacecraft will reach the Florida spaceport in the coming days, Orbcomm officials said Thursday.
Kelly, Lindgren set for second spacewalk
Space station commander Scott Kelly and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren are gearing up for their second spacewalk in nine days Friday, a planned six-and-a-half-hour excursion to reconfigure the ammonia cooling system used by one of the lab's sets of solar arrays.