Sentences with phrase «air force station»

Brevard County also has Patrick Air Force Base, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and the Naval Ordnance Test Unit.

Two minutes and thirty - nine seconds after taking off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, however, and just before second - stage separation, the rocket exploded.

The GOES - S is slated to take off on March 1st at 5:02 PM ET from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Soon afterwards, he was plotting data at the Royal Air Force Station Workshop in Nottinghamshire while taking correspondence courses in math and physics in the evenings.

Plug Board, Complex 26, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.Horizontal Gantry from Base, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1991.

Rockets actually launch at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, but Cocoa Beach offers some of the best rocket launch viewing spots on Florida's Space Coast.

Kepler is scheduled to be launched March 5 on an unmanned Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) satellites slowly, steadily rode a Atlas V 401 launch vehicle to orbit Saturday, Aug. 30 at 4:05 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC - 41).

* Launch: 27 September, 2007 (previous launch date was 30 June) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17.

TESS is set to launch Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and will add to the body of knowledge and data collected by Kepler, Steffen said.

Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:02 a.m. EST (7:02 a.m.

It was launched on 27 September, 2007 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17 on a Delta II rocket.

Starliner will initially be sent aloft atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 422 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 located in Florida.

The flight got underway at 6:51 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida.

It was launched on 3 August, 2004 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a Boeing Delta 2 rocket.

The Apollo / Saturn V Center is located within Kennedy Space Center, approximately 6.2 miles from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch pad.

Last week, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket soared into the clear night sky above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Artist's rendering of the top of the new crew access tower at Launch Pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Still a flight test, the objective is to launch the Atlas V from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and place the CST - 100 on a path to the station.

Engineers install one of Cassini's three radioisotope thermoelectric generators in a clean room at Launch Complex 40 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Oct. 9, 1997, six days prior to launch.

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Two miles to the south at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Boeing and its partner United Launch Alliance broke ground last week on a 20 - story tall access tower at Launch Complex 41, which will enable crews to board the CST - 100 capsule on top of an Atlas rocket.

Solar Probe Plus is scheduled to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 - Heavy rocket with an upper stage from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with a launch window opening for 20 days starting on July 31, 2018.

Viking 1, atop a Titan / Centaur rocket, launched from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 20, 1975.

The 5,410 - pound (2,453 - kilogram) spacecraft will launch aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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MAVEN was launched to Mars on Nov. 18, 2013 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and successfully entered Mars» orbit on Sept. 21, 2014.

Liftoff of the Falcon 9 with TESS took place at 6:51 p.m. EDT (22:51 GMT) April 18, 2018, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC - 40).

When it does fly, the CST - 100 will be launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida.

In this handout provided by U.S. Navy, Navy divers, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11 (EODMU11), Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 11 - 7, attach a towing bridal to the Orion Crew Module during the first Exploration Flight Test (EFT - 1) NASA Orion Program following its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 December 5, 2014 in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles southwest of San Diego.

The launch is scheduled for Sunday at 6.32 p.m. local time on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, said NASA in a statement late Saturday.

The spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, but needed a gravitational assist from Mars in 2009 before it journeyed deeper into the solar system.

A spacecraft on a quest to discover Earth - like and potentially habitable worlds in other solar systems around other stars took to space on April 18, 2018, riding atop a shiny new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Hazmat crews surround SpaceX Launch Complex - 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, days after the company suffered a catastrophic explosion of their Falcon - 9 booster and losing the customer's payload which was already atop the rocket for its flight to orbit.

The hunt for planets beyond the solar system went up a gear today, as NASA launched its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

A report appearing in the Orlando Sentinel stated that Boeing now appears to have taken point, with Starliner being readied for its first flights atop United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida.

The Centaur upper stage that will help launch NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - S, or GOES - S, arrives at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is poised to fly the eighth U.S. Air Force / Boeing Wideband Global Satcom satellite (WGS - 8) to a 22,300 - mile geosynchronous orbit tonight atop a Delta - IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla..

Update: NASA's Kepler mission successfully blasted off on Friday, 6 March aboard a Delta II rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 2250 EST (0350 GMT on Saturday).

Plans are for the plane to take off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday.

The Florida spaceport is also adjacent to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Atop an Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida sits the first step in what will surely be a long and arduous task for NASA — returning humans to the moon.

The company's fourth commercial resupply mission to the space station is scheduled to lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 11:14 p.m. PDT Friday, Sept. 19.

Now, after a 17 - year odyssey, the spacecraft formerly known as Triana, and widely referred to as Goresat, is scheduled to leave Earth at 6:05 p.m. on 10 February from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly 2.5 tons of supplies and experiment hardware for the International Space Station's Expedition 39 crew, lifted off at 3:25 p.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., supervises the Dawn mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in September 2007 and flrst flew by Mars for a gravity boost.

The launch took place on a day that started with heavy clouds and occasional rain at the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

That mission launched a Dragon cargo ship for NASA, and then returned to Earth to make a smooth landing at SpaceX's Landing Zone 1 pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Eyewitnesses at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida say a SpaceX rocket has exploded on the launch pad

NASA successfully launched GOES - R at 6:42 p.m. EST on November 19, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and it was renamed GOES - 16 when it achieved orbit.