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Largest-Ever Telecommunications Satellite Launched Paris, France (ESA) Jul 02, 2009
The Ariane 5's 31st consecutive mission success was another record-setting flight for this workhorse Arianespace launcher - lofting the world's largest commercial satellite, TerreStar-1, from the Spaceport in French Guiana. Lifting off from the ELA-3 launch zone on a rare afternoon departure, the Ariane 5 deployed TerreStar-1 into geostationary transfer orbit 26 minutes later. With a ... read moreILS Proton Launches SIRIUS FM-5 Satellite
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jul 02, 2009ILS International Launch Services (ILS) successfully carried the SIRIUS FM-5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton. This was the third commercial mission of the year for ILS and the fifth successful Proton launch of 2009. ILS has launched the entire SIRIUS three-satellite constellation beginning with the first launch in 2000. The ILS Proton Breeze M launched from Pad 39 at the cosmodrome ... more
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Russia launches US radio satellite: report
Moscow (AFP) July 1, 2009Russia successfully launched Tuesday a US radio satellite from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian news agencies reported. The Proton-M rocket carrying the Sirius-FM5 satellite "successfully blasted off and shortly after placed it on the sub-orbital trajectory," space officials quoted by Interfax said. The satellite will fully detach from the rocket's engine block nine ho ... more Integration Of Ariane 5 Completed
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 29, 2009The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's upcoming heavy-lift mission is now complete following its payload fairing's installation over the TerreStar-1 payload - which will be the world's largest commercial telecommunications satellite ever orbited. During activity on Wednesday (June 24) in the launcher Final Assembly Building at Europe's Spaceport, the fairing was lowered into place over ... more Parallel Launch Campaigns For Next Two Ariane 5s
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 25, 2009Two Ariane 5 launch campaigns are in full swing at the Spaceport, keeping Arianespace on track for its targeted seven missions in 2009 with the workhorse heavy-lift vehicle. For its third flight of the year, the TerreStar-1 telecommunications satellite has made initial contact with Ariane 5 hardware, with the very large spacecraft being mated to the cone-shaped adapter unit that will ... more Russian Zenit Rocket Puts Malaysian Satellite Into Orbit
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 23, 2009A Russian Zenit-3SLB carrier rocket launched from the Baikonur space center put Malaysia's Measat-3a communications satellite into orbit on Monday, a Federal Space Agency Roscosmos official said. "The Russian carrier successfully put the foreign satellite into transfer orbit. Control over the satellite has been transferred to the client, who is responsible for putting the apparatus into ... more |
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Arianespace And ESA Sign Agreement On Launch Service Procurement
Le Bourget, France (SPX) Jun 17, 2009Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Antonio Fabrizi, Director of Launchers for the European Space Agency (ESA), signed a framework contract at the Paris Air Show concerning the procurement of launch services for future ESA missions. The agreement has two main objectives: to define the conditions under which ESA procures launch services for its missions; and to facilitat ... more NASA Sets New Launch Dates For Space Shuttle, LRO And LCROSS
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 16, 2009NASA managers have scheduled the next launch attempt of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission for 5:40 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 17. The launch will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As a result, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, are set to lift off together aboard an Atlas V rocket on Thursday ... more ILS Announces 9 New Proton Missions
Le Bourget, France (SPX) Jun 16, 2009ILS International Launch Services has secured six firm launch orders and three mission assignments in the first half of 2009. ILS has also witnessed a significant trend where customers have moved from other launch providers to ILS Proton in order to meet their critical business requirements. "The six new orders we have received over the past six months are from repeat as well as new custom ... more Vietnam To Launch Second Man-Made Satellite In 2012
Hanoi, Vietnam (XNA) Jun 15, 2009Vietnam will launch the country's second man-made satellite in 2012, local newspaper the New Hanoi reported Friday. This is an important plan which was included in the strategy of research and application of space technology to 2020 of the country, said the newspaper. The satellite, called VNREDSat-1, is of small size and low orbit. It will be used to monitor and take picture of the ... more |
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