Friday, May 23, 2014

Japanese radar satellite set for launch / Atlas 5 launches

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H-2A ROCKET SET FOR LAUNCH OF JAPANESE RADAR SATELLITE
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An advanced radar mapping satellite is on the launch pad awaiting liftoff Saturday aboard a Japanese H-2A rocket to begin at least a five-year mission collecting high-resolution all-weather images of Earth from nearly 400 miles up. Liftoff is set for 0305 GMT Saturday (11:05 p.m. EDT Friday) from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan.

http://spaceflightnow.com/h2a/f24/status.html

 

ANTARES ROCKET ENGINE DAMAGED IN TEST MISHAP
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A Russian-built rocket engine assigned to launch an Orbital Sciences Corp. commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station in early 2015 was damaged Thursday during a test mishap at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1405/22aj26test/

 

ATLAS 5 LAUNCHES PAYLOAD FOR INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
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Completing a pair of missions in one week's time, a feat also performed last month, United Launch Alliance sent an Atlas 5 rocket soaring Thursday morning.

http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av046/

MISSION STATUS CENTER:
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av046/status.html

LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av046/launch/

 

DRAGON CARGO CAPSULE ENCOUNTERS WATER SEEPAGE
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Sea water seeped into SpaceX's Dragon supply capsule when it parachuted into the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, the second such occurrence since the cargo carrier began flying to the International Space Station in 2012, but a NASA space station manager said Wednesday there is no indication the incident damaged any of the sensitive research samples stowed inside.

http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/009/140521water/

PHOTOS - DRAGON RETURNS TO EARTH, PORT:
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/009/140520photos/

 

TOP GENERAL SAYS RELIABILITY TRUMPS ROCKET COSTS
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The head of U.S. Air Force Space Command pushed back Tuesday against accusations the service was excluding SpaceX from competing for lucrative military satellite launches, saying the Air Force was committing $60 million and scores of engineers to certify the commercial rocket company to put critical and costly national security payloads into orbit.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1405/20f9certification/

 

SPACEX INVESTIGATING FALCON 9 FIRST STAGE HELIUM LEAK
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SpaceX and Orbcomm officials say they are targeting liftoff of the next Falcon 9 rocket for no sooner than June 11 to give more time for engineers to trace the cause of a helium leak that squandered a launch opportunity in early May.

http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/010/140521helium/

 

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

NASA forced to retreat as rising sea levels threaten operations

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/20/nasa-forced-to-retreat-as-rising-sea-levels-threaten-operations/

With questions swirling, ULA hastens Delta 4 production

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WITH QUESTIONS SWIRLING, ULA HASTENS DELTA 4 PRODUCTION
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United Launch Alliance chief executive Michael Gass said Monday the rocket builder is accelerating production of the Delta 4 launcher to ensure U.S. national security satellites can get to space in case imports of Russian rocket engines are halted.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1405/19delta4/

 

ATLAS 5 ROCKET SET FOR LAUNCH AMID CLOUD OF CONTROVERSY
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Under siege in recent weeks by critics of its main engine and pricing, an Atlas 5 rocket plans to persevere Thursday with a mid-morning blastoff carrying a classified intelligence cargo into orbit.

MISSION PREVIEW:
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av046/preview.html

MISSION STATUS CENTER:
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av046/status.html

 

SPITZER IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF BUDGET-CONSTRAINED NASA
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Challenged by a lean budget withered by the development of the multibillion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope, NASA will likely have to shut down the infrared Spitzer telescope, one of the agency's famed Great Observatories, after an independent panel of scientists concluded there was not enough money to extend the mission.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1405/19spitzer/

 

SPITZER IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF BUDGET-CONSTRAINED NASA
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Challenged by a lean budget withered by the development of the multibillion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope, NASA will likely have to shut down the infrared Spitzer telescope, one of the agency's famed Great Observatories, after an independent panel of scientists concluded there was not enough money to extend the mission.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1405/19spitzer/

 

DRAGON MISSION ENDS WITH SPLASHDOWN IN PACIFIC OCEAN
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Packed with refrigerated science samples, spacesuit hardware and other gear from the International Space Station, a commercial Dragon cargo craft owned and operated by SpaceX concluded a 30-day mission Sunday with a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/009/140518return/

 

ROCKETS LEAP INTO THE 21ST CENTURY WITH GPS UPGRADE
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Signaling a new chapter in the long-sought modernization of the U.S. Air Force's launch ranges, Friday night's flight of a Delta 4 rocket was tracked via satellite instead of by radar in a move officials say is a money-saving upgrade to the military's aging range infrastructure.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d366/140518tracking/

 

NEW GPS SATELLITE HEADED TO UPGRADE NAVIGATION NETWORK
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A replacement Global Positioning System spacecraft for the world's best-known satellite constellation ascended into orbit Friday night aboard a Delta 4 rocket in a spectacular sendoff at sunset.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d366/

 

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Friday, May 16, 2014

Live Coverage of today's Delta 4 launch

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NEW GPS SATELLITE READY TO UPGRADE NAVIGATION NETWORK
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Their services have permeated daily lives for countless millions of people, and now the latest Global Positioning System satellite is awaiting blastoff Thursday at 8:08 p.m. EDT (0008 GMT Friday) to bolster the navigation network.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d366/status.html

MISSION PREVIEW:
http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d366/preview.html

 

INTERNATIONAL SPACE CREW LANDS SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN
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A Japanese astronaut, a veteran Russian cosmonaut and a NASA flight engineer strapped into a Soyuz ferry craft, undocked from the International Space Station and fell back to Earth Tuesday, plunging back through the atmosphere for a jarring rocket-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out a 188-day stay in orbit.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp39/140513landing/

 

ROGOZIN HURLS SALVO AGAINST U.S. SPACE PROGRAM
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Russian deputy prime minster Dmitry Rogozin fired back against U.S. sanctions Tuesday, spurning NASA's proposed life extension of the International Space Station to 2024 and announcing plans to block exports of Russian rocket engines to launch U.S. military spacecraft.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1405/13rogozin/

 

ROCKET-CARRYING ODYSSEY PLATFORM LEAVES PORT
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Sea Launch's mobile Odyssey launch platform has departed the company's Southern California home port bound for the equatorial Pacific Ocean for liftoff of the Eutelsat 3B communications satellite in late May, officials said Monday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/eutelsat3b/140512departure/

 

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NASA’s broken planet-hunter spacecraft given second life

http://m.networkworld.com/community/blog/nasa%E2%80%99s-broken-planet-hunter-spacecraft-given-second-life?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2014-05-16

Delta 4 reset for tonight / Proton rocket fails

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GPS NAVIGATION SATELLITE QUEUED UP FOR LAUNCH FRIDAY
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A second launch attempt for the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket is set for 8:03 p.m. EDT Friday (0003 Saturday) after weather forced a scrub of Thursday evening's countdown. The weather forecast for Friday is 90 percent favorable.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d366/status.html

MISSION PREVIEW:
http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d366/preview.html

 

TELECOM SATELLITE LOST AFTER PROTON LAUNCH FAILURE
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An advanced Russian communications satellite was destroyed Thursday when its Proton rocket booster failed minutes after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1405/15proton/

 

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