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...
16 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 ...
July 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 ...
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...
