Cape Canaveral Air Force Station News

Space Florida has given the Air Force a proposal to launch small payloads from Launch Complex 46, the easternmost launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V launches at 5:32 PM after a 20 minute weather delay from Complex 41 at the at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on June 18, 2009.

This stunning image is of the launch of the GOES weather satellite aboard a Delta IV rocket.

Air Force Officials, who are charged with safety during launch operations at Kennedy Space Center, are concerned that harmonic vibrations from the cluster of solid rocket boosters used on the Ares I-X could knock out both the launch vehicle's Thrust Vector Control and self destruct mechanism.

Running a day late because of stormy weather, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket boosted a new GOES weather satellite into space Saturday to serve as an orbital spare for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's fleet of hurricane-tracking weather sentinels.

New weather developments are not promising for today's planned launch of a Delta IV rocket carrying a next-generation weather satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

GREENBELT, Maryland , June 18, 2009 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32 pm EDT Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

LIVE IMAGES: The images above are from live video feeds at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where United Launch Alliance is preparing to launch a Delta IV rocket and a new national weather satellite.

Boeing Co. said today that the planned launches of its new Global Positioning System satellites is on schedule, following worries that the global navigation system could degrade or even fail .

A $100 million deal between Space Florida and United Launch Alliance is scheduled for approval today at the Space Florida Board of Directors meeting.

Images from the moon will be sent to Earth with higher power and increased efficiency due to communications hardware provided by NASA's Glenn Research Center.

Yesterday the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, and will reach the Moon next Tuesday, June 23.

As NASA prepared to launch its debut mission in a program aimed at returning astronauts to the moon, a presidential panel on Wednesday began looking at alternative ways to get there and whether the US should even go.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Spacecraft launch has been set for a 4:12 p.m. CDT liftoff Thursday.

A The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O, or GOES-O, is scheduled for a liftoff on Friday, June 26, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Delayed by bad weather, NASA on Tuesday began filling space shuttle Endeavoura TMs fuel tank for launch, hoping to begin a key construction mission at the International Space Station.

NASA is planning to launch space shuttle Endeavour on Wednesday on a construction mission to the International Space Station, officials said on Sunday.

The US space shuttle Endeavour's launch was delayed on Saturday following a hydrogen leak, postponing a mission to the International Space Station by at least four days.

The launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite will take place at 3:51 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and you can watch it happen.

COUNTDOWN clocks at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida began ticking today for Saturday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour on a mission to deliver a porch to the International Space Station.