Launch and Rocket News 09-FEB-10 en-us Paris, France (SPX) Feb 09, 2010 - Arianespace is laying the groundwork for another busy year with its workhorse Ariane 5, as the first mission of 2010 moves into its second phase of preparations and the follow-on flight's launch vehicle is delivered to French Guiana.]]> Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 08, 2010 - India will shortly launch Cartosat-2B, a high-resolution remote sensing satellite, that will aid in infrastructure and urban planning, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K Radhakrishnan said on Thursday.]]> Rome, Italy (SPX) Feb 01, 2010 - Today in Rome, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Markus Bertschi, Launcher Programmes Department Head at the European Space Agency (ESA), signed a contract defining Arianespace's support services for the qualification campaign and combined testing of the Vega light launcher.]]> Hawthorne CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2010 - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) of Ramat-Gan Israel, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, have signed an agreement for launch of a communication satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 as early as December 2012.]]> Paris, France (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Rene Oosterlinck, Director of the Galileo Program and Navigation-related Activities at the European Space Agency (ESA), has signed the launch contract for the first ten FOC (Full Operational Capability) satellites in Europe's planned Galileo satellite positioning system at ESTEC (European Space Research and Technology Center) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.]]> Esrange, Sweden (SPX) Jan 21, 2010 - The year of 2010 will be full of interesting space missions at Esrange Space Center - Swedish Space Corporation's (SSC) operational facility for rocket and balloon launches, testing of new aerospace vehicles as well as control and operations of satellites.]]> Milpitas CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2010 - Globalstar has announced that the first 90-day window to launch six Globalstar second-generation satellites will open on July 5, 2010. Globalstar plans to launch the new satellites during this time. The satellites will be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan using the Soyuz launch vehicle.]]> Moscow, China (RIA Novosti) Jan 19, 2010 - Russia will launch two international satellites as well as a freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) next month from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Federal Space Agency said Monday.]]> Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 13, 2010 - The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has signed a decree to reserve, for seven years, a 103,546-ha site in the Amur Province for the construction of the Vostochny spaceport. T]]> Thiruvananthapuram, India (SPX) Jan 11, 2010 - The third launch pad planned at ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, is going to be something special.]]>