Antares Speeds Cygnus to ISS with OA-9 Launch

Will Smoot

May 21, 2018

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As we disembark the buses we hear “Check item 347,” and remember that the OA-9 launch team has been on the job since 10:00 pm, 5 hours earlier than us. The clouds are broken and allow us glimpses of stars, but we are also able to see clouds lighting up, and an occasional flash from a storm just offshore.

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MUOS-5 Completes the US Navy's Constellation

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United Launch Alliance lofts the fifth and final Mobile User Objective Service (MUOS-5) satellite for the United States Navy on 24 June 2016.

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This image is a composite of 81 images shot in a series starting when the media was escorted to the ITL Causeway, just after 12:30am on Friday, May 6, 2016. The skies were very clear, and the stars (as you can see) were very visible. Each of the images was a 30 second exposure and they run right up to just before the launch by SpaceX of their Falcon9 rocket carrying the JCSAT-14 communications satellite at just after 1:20am. The launch itself is captured by a 166 second exposure that is (obviously) the streak. (Photo credit: Michael Seeley / We Report Space)

Falcon 9 sends JCSAT-14 to Orbit, self to Drone Ship

SpaceX's fourth Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket delivers JCSAT-14 to Geostationary Orbit, then executes a perfect landing aboard its waiting drone ship.

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Stunning, full color photo book covering every east coast launch spanning 2014-2015, including the first-ever powered landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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