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Assembly Of Soyuz' Mobile Gantry Underway Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Nov 16, 2009 
The new Soyuz operating base in French Guiana is entering final preparations for Arianespace's inauguration of commercial missions next year, with the facility's launch pad undergoing final outfitting and acceptance, and assembly now underway for its mobile gantry. This activity is continuing apace as the first two Soyuz 2-1a launchers are en route from Russia to French Guiana for an ... read moreNASA readies WISE for December launch 
Vandenberg AFB CA (UPI) Nov 11, 2009 Engineers have started cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite to be launched next month in California. WISE, which is to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base Dec. 7, is designed to map the entire sky in infrared light. "To see infrared light from the cosmos, WISE must be chilled to out-of-this-world cold temperatures," NASA said. ... more
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LockMart Ready For Launch Of Intelsat 14 Spacecraft
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Nov 12, 2009Lockheed Martin is in the final stages of preparation for Saturday's launch of a commercial telecommunications satellite for Intelsat, the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services, aboard an Atlas V booster provided by United Launch Alliance. The launch window opens at 12:48 a.m. EST and extends until 2:18 a.m. Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services is under contract to ... more Iran To Launch Satellite With Italian Help In 2011 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 11, 2009Iran will launch a low orbiting research satellite in cooperation with an Italian company in 2011, Iranian media reported on Tuesday. The Mesbah (Lantern) satellite will weigh 63.5 kilograms. Mehr News Agency quoted Gen. Mahdi Farahi, the head of Iran's Aero Space Industries, as saying: "Italy will cooperate with Aerospace Industries Organization to send Mesbah into space. We hope the ... more First Two Soyuz Shipped To Europe's Kourou Spaceport 
St. Petersburg, Germany (SPX) Nov 09, 2009The first two Soyuz launchers have left Russia for the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana (northern part of South America). The legendary Russian launcher will lift off from its new launch pad, now being completed at Kourou, for the first time in 2010. The two Soyuz launchers left St. Petersburg aboard the MN Colibri, which is one of two ships used by Arianespace to transport ... more China To Launch French-Made CommSat 
Beijing, China (XNA) Nov 09, 2009China will launch a French-made communications satellite for the Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Holding Limited in the first half of 2012. A contract for the launch service was signed here Sunday. The satellite, dubbed APTSTAR-7 and made by the Thales Alenia Space, will be sent into space by China's Long March 3B/E carrier rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern ... more |
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Follow The Launch Of ESA's SMOS And Proba-2 Satellites
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 29, 2009ESA's SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and Proba-2 (PRoject for OnBoard Autonomy) satellites are scheduled for launch on Monday 2 November at 02:50 CET on a Russian Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. SMOS, ESA's water mission, is the first satellite designed both to map sea surface salinity and monitor soil moisture on a global scale, thus contributing ... more Ariane rocket places two satellites into orbit 
Paris (AFP) Oct 29, 2009An Ariane 5 rocket on Thursday successfully placed two television satellites into orbit, the NNS-12 for SES World Skies and the THOR 6 for a subsidiary of Norway's Telenor, Arianespace said. The dual payload lifted off from the Arianespace launch site in Kourou, French Guiana during the 2000 GMT to 2140 GMT launch window. The launch was the 192nd mission completed by Ariane rockets, and ... more It's A Go For Next Ariane 5 Launch 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 28, 2009Arianespace's sixth Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has been approved for its October 29 liftoff following the launch readiness review, performed at the Spaceport in French Guiana. This traditional milestone prior to every Ariane mission validated the heavy-lift launch vehicle's status, along with the NSS-12 and THOR 6 satellite payloads, the infrastructure at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana ... more Super Heavy EEVLs As Replacement Of ARES 1 And ARES 5 
Prague, Czech Republic (SPX) Oct 27, 2009I think that the US Space Program needs very much to liberate itself from the heritage of the STS, first of all from SRB and from huge LOX/LH2 tanks. Dry mass of such tank of ARES 5, including 6 engines RS 68, amounts at least 65.000 kg and such dead mass will receive almost orbital velocity which constitutes a big loss of the fuel. The Augustine Commission has outlined the most effective ... more |
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