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Weather forecast looks good for Friday’s Atlas 5 rocket launch
Air Force meteorologists are giving good odds of acceptable weather conditions for the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket to fly Friday morning from Cape Canaveral to put a Navy mobile communications satellite into orbit.
Atlas 5 rocket gains approval to launch again after issue on last flight diagnosed
United Launch Alliance has granted "flight clearance" for its workhorse Atlas 5 rocket to resume satellite deployments after linking an errant valve with the fuel usage crunch on its most recent mission and tweaking subsequent vehicles.
Photos: Navy satellite encapsulated, mated to Atlas 5
The U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective System communications satellite No. 5 was encapsulated in the payload fairing at Astrotech on June 4 and then hoisted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket at Complex 41 on June 13.
Video: Asteroid sampler craft delivered to launch site
NASA's OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft that will grab a piece of Asteroid Bennu and return it to Earth, shipped to Kennedy Space Center from the Lockheed Martin production facilities in Denver on May 20 aboard an Air Force C-17.
VideoNASA probe that will make round trip to asteroid and back sent to launch base
Equipped with a robot arm, sample collector and return capsule, NASA's asteroid-bound OSIRIS-REx probe emerged from its pristine factory and flew to the launch site in Florida on Friday.
First astronaut flight on Boeing capsule slips to 2018
The first piloted test flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner commercial crew capsule has been delayed to early 2018 as designers wrestle with the mass of the spacecraft, aerodynamic loads the vehicle will see during launch, and new software requirements levied by NASA, company officials said.
Q&A with John Elbon, VP and general manager of Boeing’s space exploration division
Boeing's work on the International Space Station, the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew capsule and NASA's heavy-lift Space Launch System are under the umbrella of John Elbon, who leads the company's space exploration division in Houston.
New lineup spelled out for upcoming Atlas 5 rocket launches from the Cape
The revised Atlas 5 rocket firing order includes two national security missions this summer before launching NASA's daring asteroid sampler mission in September as originally planned.
Mixture ratio valve the culprit in Atlas 5 anomaly, next launch this summer
With the performance hit on the Atlas 5 rocket's most recent flight last month now isolated to a faulty valve, preparations to resume the manifest are underway as United Launch Alliance workers stack the next booster for blastoff this summer.
Door now open to launch educational hitchhikers on Atlas 5 rockets for free
United Launch Alliance has begun accepting applications from colleges and universities across the U.S. to compete for free cubesat launch slots aboard upcoming Atlas 5 rockets.