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| Friday, June 04 2010 @ 06:34 PM MST
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CAPE CANAVERAL, AFS - The familiar roar of a rocket's powerful engines inaugurated a new era of commercial space transportation today at Cape Canaveral. The maiden flight of the 157-foot tall Falcon 9 rocket, built by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), successfully placed a demonstration space station resupply spcaecraft into a 155 mile high low Earth orbit nine and a half minutes after launch. more importantly, today's flight brought an added measure of credibility for an upstart company that hopes to be a prime supplier for NASA's future space transportation requirements.
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(Photo Above: SpaceX's first Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Credit: Chris Thompson / SpaceX)
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Cape Canaveral AFS, FL - An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite this morning at 7:07 a.m. EDT from launch pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Managed by the Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing of the air Force, AEHF-1 is the first of a new generation of military communication satellites destined to replace the u.S. Department of Defense's aging MILSTAR satellite constellation.
On Wednesday, August 4, Arianespace orbited the NILESAT 201 direct broadcast satellite for the Egyptian operator Nilesat, and the RASCOM-QAF1R communications satellite for the pan-African operator RascomStar-QAF. Both satellites were built by Thales Alenia Space.
A three-stage Black Brant X suborbital sounding rocket was successfully launched on August 4, 2010 at 5:15 a.m. from NASA's launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The purpose of the mission was to flight qualify the vehicle's third stage Nihka motor.
LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, CA - Continuing a tradition from the Milstar satellite communications program, the Lockheed-Martin/Air Force Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) team signed a piece of the flight thermal blanket for the AEHF-1 satellite.
On Saturday, June 26, an Ariane 5 rocket successfully orbited the Arabsat-5A communications satellite for the operator Arabsat, and the COMS multimission satellite for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).
CAPE CANAVERAL, AFS - All eyes will be on Cape Canaveral tomorrow for the first launch of a rocket that could herald a new era for the commercial space industry and NASA. If Florida's fickle weather co-operates, sometime between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. EDT, the inaugural flight of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation's Falcon 9 rocket will take to the skies, carrying with it the hopes and ambitions of a gutsy upstart space company and the commercial space movement as a whole.
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is targeting an earliest possible launch date of June 4 for the maiden flight of the company's Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Lingering issues with processing all of the paperwork necessary in order for the U.S. Air Force, which runs the Eastern Range at Cape Canaveral, to give final approval for launch have repeatedly pushed back the launch date.
After several days of delays due to technical reasons, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV-Medium rocket carrying the first Global Positioning System IIF satellite finally lifted off at 11:00 p.m. EDT today from Space Launch Complex 37 and successfuly placed the Global Positioning System GPS IIF SV-1 satellite into orbit three and a half hours later. GPS IIF SV-1 marked the 349th launch in the Delta program???s 50 year history, which began with its first launch on May 13, 1960.
MAY 23 UPDATE: Sunday's launch attempt of the Delta IV rocket with the next-generation Global Positioning System satellite GPS IIF SV-1 has been scrubbed again. Launch has been rescheduled for Monday night. According to a USAF press release:
