Atlas 5

Weather forecast looks good for Friday’s Atlas 5 rocket launch

June 20, 2016 Justin Ray

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

June 16, 2016 Justin Ray

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

June 15, 2016 Justin Ray

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

May 24, 2016 Justin Ray

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.

NASA probe that will make round trip to asteroid and back sent to launch base

May 20, 2016 Justin Ray

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

May 12, 2016 Stephen Clark

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.

Weather forecast looks good for Friday’s Atlas 5 rocket launch

Atlas 5 rocket gains approval to launch again after issue on last flight diagnosed

Photos: Navy satellite encapsulated, mated to Atlas 5

Video: Asteroid sampler craft delivered to launch site

NASA probe that will make round trip to asteroid and back sent to launch base

First astronaut flight on Boeing capsule slips to 2018

Q&A with John Elbon, VP and general manager of Boeing’s space exploration division

New lineup spelled out for upcoming Atlas 5 rocket launches from the Cape

Mixture ratio valve the culprit in Atlas 5 anomaly, next launch this summer

Door now open to launch educational hitchhikers on Atlas 5 rockets for free