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ULA- UNITED LANUCH ALLAINCE | Delta IV AFSPC-6 – Launch cinematic Highlights- You Just might want to turn up the volume for this….

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You Just might want to turn up the volume also the full screen resolution up for the Launch Highlights from 19th August 2016 from Space Launch complex SLC-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on a very need coffee early morning at 12.00 EDT, “United Launch Alliance” launched a twin – share United States Air Force payload, in which it is two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites….   As you can see the preparations from the Atlas four assembly tower has it finalized the assembly with it slow retracting in prepping for the launch for that early morning as the super moon rises overhead with thundering roars of the Atlas Main engines and it’s solid rocket motors….Into near near-geosynchronous orbit… The twin GSSAP satellites are built by “Orbital ATK” in which this payload is design specifically design for enhancing the perception of operations of the US Air force’s U.S. Strategic Command space enhanced awareness operations.. One part of the operations of the launch is to bring awareness of spaceflight in bring satellite collision avoidance controls..  Also this is a dedication tribute launch to one of ULA’s Dearest work colleague, friend… Ramey Hill…

 

NASA- ORION | EFT-1 First test flight – that first amazing flight would look like..?

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In about two days’ time least, or days hours,  the very first steps in returning back to the moon… with the first test flight one on a “NASA”  Orion spacecraft is called an “Exploration Flight Test one” a unmanned test article in which  will launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida,  on fourth December 2014, on a flight where it will test all parts of the Deployment systems on a Delta four heavy rockets with dual sides boosters, with a central core in which that will deploy the second stage to the orbit the Earth twice higher than any other vehicle use since the Apollo program, the first manned Luna missions to the moon in that 1973 year..

As NASA’s Deputy for flight test integration of the Orion program, Jay Estes explains the process of the first flight also its main goal is test out the systems out from the service module , also the heat shielding…  in which it lands in the Pacific ocean with a series of parachutes to stage it’s descent.. With the recovery of the United States Navy to do the recovery operations of the Orion –EFT-1.. .

Watch here for live coverage of the “NASA’s Orion exploration first test flight on NASA Television…!”