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Amazon to launch its first batch of Project Kuiper satellites on ULA rockets

Seth Kurkowski - Apr 19th 2021 10:07 am PT @SethKurk

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Amazon’s answer to SpaceX’s satellite-based Starlink internet service is called Project Kuiper, and now the company has secured flights on ULA’s Atlas V rocket. These launches will be the first of many to build out the constellation of 3,236 satellites.

Boeing targeting March 29 for Starliner’s second uncrewed test flight

Nicholas Terry - Dec 9th 2020 4:27 pm PT

NASA Boeing Starliner ULA Atlas V

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After the failure of Starliner’s first uncrewed test flight back in December 2019, Boeing and NASA are finally ready to give it another go. The aerospace company is now targeting March 29, 2021, to launch Starliner’s second uncrewed flight.

Dispatches from NASA: Countdown to Mars kicks off a decade of science and discovery

Zac Hall - Aug 12th 2020 2:50 pm PT @apollozac

NASA Mars Mars 2020 Perseverance Ingenuity

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NASA’s Perseverance rover lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on July 30, but the Countdown to Mars is really only just starting. The rover’s months-long journey to Mars will continue through February 2021, then the next decade of Martian science and astrobiological discovery can begin. In this Dispatches from NASA installment, Space Explored captures the week that the Mars 2020 mission took flight in photos and video.

Launch Rundown: The path to NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 Perseverance and Ingenuity mission

Seth Kurkowski - Jul 22nd 2020 10:13 pm PT @SethKurk

Mars Mars 2020 Perseverance Ingenuity ULA

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On the heels of the return to human space flight from American soil, NASA is launching another historic mission this year. Perseverance, the newest of NASA’s Mars rovers, plans to launch as soon as July 30, and the mission is packed full of new science experiments to learn more about the Red Planet. The new Mars rover will be launching on top of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

What makes Perseverance special? For starters, it’s the result of previous Mars missions dating back to the mid ’90s, and the state-of-the-art rover will be accompanied by the first-ever space helicopter…

Launch Alert: ULA Atlas V completing first Space Force mission today

Zac Hall - Mar 26th 2020 10:42 am PT @apollozac

Launch ULA Space Force Atlas V

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Thursday, March 26, 2020 is launch day at Space Launch Complex-41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. United Launch Alliance is completing the Sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency, or AEHF-6, mission for the United States Space Force.