04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
... west coast of America aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The official start of the countdown begins today at... PST (3 p.m EST/7 p.m GMT). Once airborne, InSight's Atlas will reach orbit about 13 minutes after launch, when the rocket...
13 December 2019
Starliner spacecraft could fly as early as next week
...top of a 52.4-metre (172-foot-tall) United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station seven days from ... the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft ton top of a human-rated Atlas 5 rocket,” Morhard said. “This is the first flight test ...
23 December 2019
Starliner lands successfully despite problems during inaugural flight
...NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, including: Successful launch of the first human-rated United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket Checked out the Starliner propulsion systems Tested space-to-space communications Confirmed Starliner tracker alignments...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... relay support for ground assets at Mars. On 18 November 2013, the mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas V rocket and was inserted into Mars orbit on 21 September 2014. Three views of an escaping atmosphere, obtained by MAVEN...
December 2014
A door closes
... that. At the same time, the US became dependent on Russia providing powerful engines, the RD180s, for the Atlas V rockets to launch its most important military satellites into orbit, and many US firms used Russian launch...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... when the exploration of space was dependent on monster rockets and huge satellites. Think of the American Saturn or Atlas, the French Ariane and the Russian N1 and Proton vehicles. In that sense, the space industry reflected...
