Saturday, November 12, 2016

The United States launched the Atlas V rocket with the satellite sensing of the Earth – Lenta.ru

the United States launched a rocket Atlas V 401 with satellite sensing WorldView-4. On Friday, November 11, reported on the website of the developer of the satellite company United Launch Alliance (ULA), on the portal there is a live broadcast of the flight.

the Launch took place on November 11 at 10:30 Pacific standard time (21:30 GMT) from the spaceport Vandenberg, California. The flight is in normal mode.

the launch of Atlas V with the satellite was scheduled for September, but was postponed four times: first, due to technical problems, then the cause of forest fire near the launch pad and twice again there were already minor problems of a technical nature.

on September 9 launch vehicle Atlas V launch site at Cape Canaveral, NASA launched a mission Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer asteroid Bennu. He is considered one of the most dangerous for the Earth objects.

the Satellite, WorldView-4 created the company Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the company DigitalGlobe. The objective of the unit is to transmit multispectral panoramic images of the Earth in high definition.

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