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...
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 ...
October 2026
Redefining the edge of the solar system
...Photo credits: 1I/’Oumuamua: ESO/M. Kornmesser; 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS: NASA/ESA /Jewitt (UCLA) As solar systems come ...known as 1I/Oumuamua, detected in 2017, 2I/Borisov in 2019 and 3I/ATLAS in 2025. These objects act like comets, which is why they ...
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...
