Similar
A SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-19 rocket launched at Cape Canaveral
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A remote wide-angle camera captures liftoff of the Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity Probe B spacecraft from Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg AFB, Calif., at 9:57:24 a.m. PDT. KSC-04pd1082
The Missile Defense Agency and sailors aboard USS John
NPP Delta II Launch (201110280003HQ)
STS-116 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-134 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — Viewed from the top of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft roars off the launch pad aboard an Atlas V rocket spewing flames and smoke. Liftoff was on time at 2 p.m. EST from Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This was the third launch attempt in as many days after scrubs due to weather concerns. The compact, 1,050-pound piano-sized probe will get a boost from a kick-stage solid propellant motor for its journey to Pluto. New Horizons will be the fastest spacecraft ever launched, reaching lunar orbit distance in just nine hours and passing Jupiter 13 months later. The New Horizons science payload, developed under direction of Southwest Research Institute, includes imaging infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers, a multi-color camera, a long-range telescopic camera, two particle spectrometers, a space-dust detector and a radio science experiment. The dust counter was designed and built by students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The launch at this time allows New Horizons to fly past Jupiter in early 2007 and use the planet’s gravity as a slingshot toward Pluto. The Jupiter flyby trims the trip to Pluto by as many as five years and provides opportunities to test the spacecraft’s instruments and flyby capabilities on the Jupiter system. New Horizons could reach the Pluto system as early as mid-2015, conducting a five-month-long study possible only from the close-up vantage of a spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd0095
CAPE APOLLO 8 LAUNCH. NASA public domain image colelction.
A view of the launch of the Delta 162 carrying WESTAR V, the fifth in a series of Western Union communications satellites
Related
1960er Jahre Atlas-Agena KH-7 SLC-4 07838K
Atlas Van der Hagen-KW1049B10 053-SILESIA DVCATVS
Atlas Van der Hagen-KW1049B12 071-ISTRIA olim IAPIDIA
Atlas Van der Hagen-KW1049B10 062-RVGIA INSVLA AC DVCATVS
Atlas Schoemaker-KASTELEN-2607-Kastelen, Altena
Atlas Van der Hagen-KW1049B13 003-TVRCICVM IMPERIVM
Atlas Schoemaker-KASTELEN-2575-Kastelen, Heusden
Atlas Van der Hagen-KW1049B12 018-INSULAE ACORES
Atlas Van der Hagen-KW1049B11 005-CORNUBIA. sive CORNWALLIA
1960er Jahre Atlas-Agena-KH-7 SLC-4 09892K
Zusammenfassung
KH-7 GAMBIT optical reconnaissance satellite
Public domain photograph of a spacecraft, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tags
Datum
1960 - 1969
Quelle
National Reconnaissance Office
Link
Copyright-info
Public Domain