Atlas Five Rocket to Launch Before Noon - http://clapway.com/2015/07/15/atlas-five-rocket-to-launch-before-noon678/

Right now, the Atlas Five Rocket is set to launch from the Cape Canaveral before at eleven thirty. However the rocket won’t be alone in its travel; it will have a very technologically advanced passenger aboard.

Some background info

While everything is underway for the rocket launch later today, the 2nd Space Operation Squadron in Colorado is celebrating a milestone this week. What milestone is that? It is the twentieth anniversary since the Global Positioning System (GPS) emergence was announced on July 17, 1995. On Friday, is the day twenty years ago, the GPS make its dent in technological history and changed the nation’s everyday life forever..

Today, we use GPS technology in a multitude of ways and integrate it into our everyday lives without even thinking twice about it. Whether it is finding your way to a hole in the wall bite to eat, or exploring a trail to a sweet secret fishing spot, helping you get back onto the interstate, GPS is there for you. This goes to show you how we have become accustomed to having it.

To get an idea of how valuable and treasured the GPS is in monetary value, the system is estimated to be valued over twenty-six billion dollars by next year.

The companion aboard the Atlas Five Rocket

A press release that was put up yesterday announced that Colorado’s United Launch Alliance will launch the GPS IIF-10 mission from the Atlas Five 401 rocket launch in Cape Canaveral. This GPS will be the companion up to the stars with the rocket.

The GPS IIF-109 is the tenth of twelve block which will eventually replace the older satellites in orbit when the time comes to retire the old fellas. All good things must come to an end after a while, and at least they had a good run and have stories to tell when home.

The president and owner of ULA commented that the company was proud to help in its role in the advances GPS has done and will do. They look forward to keeping the hundred percent successful launch history today with the GPS IIF-10’s launch.

Governor of colorado declares friday “GPS DAY”

To continue with the celebration measures, Governor Hickenlooper will declare Friday, “GPS Day” in Colorado in honor the GPS and all the things it continues to do and will do.Also the ULA plans on launching the Delta IV rocket on the 22nd with a military communications satellite if all goes well with this week’s launch.

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Atlas Five Rocket to Launch Before Noon

Third time"s the charm? - http://clapway.com/2015/07/05/resupply-mission-successfully-reaches-the-iss-234/

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) breathed a collective sigh of relief after receiving much-needed supplies thanks to the ISS resupply mission.

ISS RESUPPLY MISSION SUCCESS AT LAST

Russia’s Progress 60 cargo spaceship launched atop a Soyuz-U rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:55 a.m. ET on Friday, July 3. The craft reached orbit nine minutes after launch. And it successfully docked with the ISS at 3:11 a.m. ET on Sunday, July 5.

Progress 60 delivered more than three tons of supplies including food, water, fuel, oxygen, spare parts, and experiments to the ISS.

The spacecraft will remain docked to the ISS for four months.

This successful ISS resupply mission launch and docking comes after a string of unsuccessful attempts to resupply the ISS with essential supplies.

The third time’s the charm as the say! #Progress60 arrives overnight. Great news. #YearInSpace (with supplies!) pic.twitter.com/BRRFA13ER1

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) July 5, 2015

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket broke apart shortly after launch on June 28, destroying its cargo-carrying Dragon spacecraft. A Russian Progress cargo spaceship spiraled out of control and was lost shortly after its launch in April 2015. And Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo capsule exploded just above its launch platform in October 2014.

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

The station’s crew is thrilled by the successful ISS resupply mission, Progress 60 mission, describing that receiving the needed supplies feels like “Christmas in July.”

#Progress docks to Pirs docking compartment at 3:11am ET. Crew reports, “Feels like Christmas in July” pic.twitter.com/pVoGUG5aQL

— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) July 5, 2015

Because of the previous failed missions, the crew was just months away from needing to break into emergency reserve supplies.

The new supplies should be enough to sustain the station through November. The next mission to resupply the ISS is Japan’s H-II Transfer Vehicle, scheduled to launch in mid-August.

ROAD TO RECOVERY

SpaceX is still investigating the cause of the June 28 Falcon 9 failure. The private space company hopes to learn from its first failed ISS resupply attempt and continue improving its space flight capabilities.

SpaceX plans to test an in-flight abort feature to demonstrate the ability of the Dragon capsule to separate from its rocket in the event of a rocket malfunction—something that could save cargo and, eventually, astronauts’ lives, if a similar event like the June 28 ISS resupply mission rocket failure occurs.

The company recently announced that it will launch this abort test from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida instead of the originally planned location of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Orbital Sciences has essentially been grounded since the failure of its Antares rocket. But the company’s Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in late 2015.

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Resupply Mission Successfully Reaches the ISS