20 December 2019
Trouble for Starliner's inaugural flight as burn maneouver fails
...) this morning, the reusable CST-100 Starliner capsule launched atop the United Launch Alliance "N22" Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. "It was stunning to see," NASA...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission lifted off on an Atlas V 411 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 05:03 CET on 10 February on its mission to study the Sun from new perspectives. ...
29 July 2020
Mars 2020 mission, Perseverance rover 'go for launch,' says NASA
... launch will take place at 7:50 am EDT (11:50 GMT) on Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on board a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Live coverage will take place on YouTube and across social media platforms. Following a seven-month...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
...heavy class rockets, which are analogous to Delta IV and Atlas V respectively, are being finalised. If China can access ... is also ready to go head-to-head with SpaceX. At present, Atlas V is the most in-demand American launch vehicle (nine missions in...
15 August 2019
SNC remains optimistic about crewed Dream Chaser
...'s first mission launching in the fall of the same year. "Atlas is also a backup," Bruno said. "We're on time with Vulcan... systems going on the Vulcan Centaur are already being tested on Atlas 5s. "We're going to sort of actually fly Vulcan before we ...
June 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...cost of launching the new rockets produced by Lockheed Martin (the Atlas V) and Boeing (the Delta IV, admittedly, technically perfect rockets... almost five times lower than for the Delta IV and Atlas V. And the British company SSTL, which started out ...
