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Spaceport Kourou Welcomes Fourth Ariane 5 Launch Campaign For 2008 Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 16, 2008 
Arianespace is maintaining the sustained Ariane 5 launch pace in 2008, with this year's fourth launcher now undergoing its initial buildup at the Spaceport in French Guiana. The heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA was delivered on Monday, May 12, by the MN Colibri - one of two roll-on/roll-off seagoing ships that transport launcher components from Europe to the launch site in South America. ... read more |
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Sweden Launches MASER 11 Sounding Rocket
Esrange, Sweden (SPX) May 16, 2008Today at 04.00 UTC the microgravity rocket MASER 11 was successfully launched Thursday from Swedish Space Corporation's launching facility Esrange Space Center. MASER 11 reached an apogee of 252 km and the experiments onboard spent 6 minutes and 26 seconds in microgravity. MASER 11 carried four ESA financed microgravity experiments for studies of fluid physics and metallurgical ... more Arianespace Takes Delivery Of Its Third Ariane 5 In 2008 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 08, 2008The launch vehicle for Ariane 5's third flight of 2008 is now under Arianespace responsibility after its delivery by prime contractor Astrium at the Spaceport in French Guiana. Handover of the heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA occurred with its transfer yesterday (May 6) from the Launcher Integration Building - where Astrium performed the vehicle's build-up, to the Final Assembly Building - where Ar ... more Orbital Awarded Contract for Suborbital Launch Vehicle Research by US DoD 
Dulles VA (SPX) May 07, 2008Orbital Sciences has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense for the Theoretical Studies and Engineering Services (TSER) program. Orbital will serve as a prime contractor to support U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force research and development programs managed by White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico. The basic term of the indefinite ... more Skynet 5C And Turksat 3A Are Fueled For The Upcoming Ariane 5 Heavy-Lift Launch 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 07, 2008The two payloads for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 heavy-lift mission have been fueled as preparations continue for the May 23 launch from the Spaceport in French Guiana. Both Skynet 5C and Turksat 3A were "topped off" within hours of each other inside the S5 satellite preparation facility, underscoring the Spaceport's ability to keep pace with the accelerating launch rate for Ariane 5. ... more ISRO Scientists Meet With Prime Minister 
New Delhi, India (PTI) May 07, 2008Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday lauded Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists behind the successful launch of polar rocket that put a record ten satellites in orbit. A delegation of top space scientists led by ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair presented to Singh a model of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and satellite pictures of the national capital taken by Cartosat ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2008A Ukrainian-Russian carrier rocket has successfully put an Israeli communications satellite into orbit, Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Monday. The Zenit-3SLB rocket was launched earlier on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan for the first time under the Land Launch program and after a number of delays. "The separation of the foreign spacecraft from a ... more Military And Civilian Telecom Satellites Are Readied For Third Ariane 5 Mission Of 2008 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Apr 30, 2008The two payloads for Ariane 5's third mission of 2008 are undergoing pre-flight checkout at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana as Arianespace maintains the accelerated launch rate for its heavy-lift workhorse vehicle this year. These satellites - Skynet 5C and Turksat 3A - are being readied for liftoff on May 23, which will be five weeks to the day after Arianespace's most recent on-target ... more Israeli communications satellite launched 
Moscow (AFP) April 28, 2008A rocket carrying an Israeli communications satellite was successfully launched Monday from a Russian base in Kazakhstan, television footage showed. State Russian television showed a Zenit rocket carrying the Israeli AMOS-3 satellite blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome four days after technical problems delayed the original launch. "The decoupling of the rocket's second stage... wa ... more PSLV Launches Ten Satellites 
Sriharikota, India (SPX) Apr 29, 2008In its thirteenth flight conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, today (April 28, 2008), ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C9, successfully launched the 690 kg Indian remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-2A, the 83 kg Indian Mini Satellite (IMS-1) and eight nanosatellites for international customers into a 637 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). ... more AMOS-3 Communications Satellite Launched
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Spacecom has announced that its newest satellite, AMOS-3, has been successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan. AMOS-3 roared into the atmosphere onboard a Zenit-3SLB launcher this morning at 08.00 Israel local time (05.00 GMT). The launcher's first and second stages have already been successfully separated. The last stage will be separated a few hours ... more |
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Gilbert AZ (SPX) Apr 17, 2008The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite, designed and built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, was successfully launched today from the U.S. Army's Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. C/NOFS is a Department of Defense (DOD) Space Test Program and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) mission that will ... more Its A Go For Arianespace's Second Ariane 5 Mission Of 2008 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Apr 17, 2008The second Ariane 5 flight of 2008 was given a green light for its April 18 liftoff following the launch readiness review at the Spaceport in French Guiana. This review, which is conducted prior to each mission, validated the readiness of Ariane 5, its dual-passenger payload of the Star One C2 and Vinasat-1 satellites, the launch infrastructure at Europe's Spaceport, and the network of downrange ... more Orbital Awarded USAF Contract For Three Minotaur Space Launch Vehicles 
Dulles VA (SPX) Apr 16, 2008Orbital Sciences has announced that the U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC) has ordered three additional Minotaur space launch vehicles in support of the new Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office. The Program Office responsible for Minotaur vehicles is the Launch Test Squadron (LTS) of the Space Development and Test Wing (SDTW) at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The late ... more First ICO Bird Soars As Atlas V Lofts Its Heavist Load Yet 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 15, 2008A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched the ICO-G1 satellite at 4:12 p.m. EDT, today. Blasting off from Space Launch Complex 41 here, it marked the first ULA commercial launch of an Atlas V vehicle procured by Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services. The ICO-G1 satellite is also the heaviest satellite launched to date by an Atlas V, weighing 6,634 kg or 14,625 lbm when f ... more Arianespace Lauds Japan Relationship As A Partnership Of Trust 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 13, 2008Arianespace underscored its important role in the Japanese market during a week of activities that included today's (April 11) signing of a new satellite launch for Ariane 5: the BSAT-3b spacecraft to be operated by Japan's Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT). During a multi-day visit to Tokyo, Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall and the Arianespace management team hosted ... more
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