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Mar 13, 2020, 08:52 AM
The capstone satellite to the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications system has been mounted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket for its ride into orbit on March 26.
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Feb 28, 2020, 11:38 AM
A half-million pounds of hardware have come together at Cape Canaveral's Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) to form the Atlas V 551 rocket for the first launch of a national security space mission on behalf of the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
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Feb 6, 2020, 10:09 AM
She is a mom of two young children, an engineer with a master's degree and the designer of the trajectory that Atlas V will take to launch Solar Orbiter towards its destiny with the sun.
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Jan 31, 2020, 12:40 PM
Solar Orbiter has been hoisted atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will launch the spacecraft to the sun for repeated close encounters and detailed observations over the next decade.
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Jan 26, 2020, 07:10 AM
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket has achieved a major milestone in preparation to launch Solar Orbiter on Feb. 7 for a mission to explore the uncharted polar regions of the sun.
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Jan 8, 2020, 14:30 PM
The Atlas V rocket has been stacked to launch Solar Orbiter, an international spacecraft bound for the inner solar system to gain unprecedented insights into the lifestyle of the sun.
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Nov 22, 2019, 09:28 AM
United Launch Alliance has begun preparing the Atlas V rocket to send Solar Orbiter on its journey to study the Sun for the European Space Agency and NASA.
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