NASA’s InSight mission began a six-month journey to Mars on Saturday with liftoff aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. The first interplanetary mission to launch from the West Coast of the United States, InSight departed from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base at the opening of a two-hour launch window that opened at 04:05 local time (11:05 UTC).
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United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket launched the AFSPC-11 mission for the United States Air…
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NASA’s InSight Mars lander is ready for the final processing sprint before its launch opportunity…
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United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket has deployed an advanced weather satellite for the US…
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United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V has launched on her seventy-fifth flight, lofting the SBIRS GEO-4,…
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) has completed the Design Certification Review (DCR) for the Atlas V…
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United Launch Alliance’s clandestine Atlas V launch in support of the US National Reconnaissance Office…
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched an Atlas V rocket on Saturday evening, carrying out the…
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NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission is back on…
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a new satellite for NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay…
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Launch delays are sometimes part of the equation in determining when specific missions launch in…
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NASA and Boeing are reviewing the status of the TDRS-M launch date following an incident…
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As Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew transportation vehicle for NASA continues to meet its processing milestones…
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United Launch Alliance and Orbital ATK launched the OA-7 Cygnus mission to the International Space…
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For its second launch of the year, the Atlas V rocket marked its 70th mission…
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The US Air Force’s third Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous missile detection satellite rode to…
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United Launch Alliance launched its last Atlas V rocket of 2016 Sunday, deploying the EchoStar…
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Busy December to mark end of year global launch salvo
by Chris BerginUp to 15 orbital launches are set to take place during a very busy December,…
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An Atlas V rocket has successfully deployed a next-generation weather satellite for the US National…
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Citing exceptional and beyond performance expectations on the Return To Flight mission of their Antares…