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 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 more 
Washington (AFP) July 1, 2009The US space shuttle Endeavour has cleared a test for potentially harmful hydrogen gas leaks that twice delayed its high-profile launch, NASA said Wednesday. Engineers from the US space agency seemed to have successfully repaired the external fuel tank of the shuttle, which is waiting to embark on its final mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with a seven-member crew. To tes ... more
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Paris (AFP) July 1, 2009Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate class of black hole that could explain how supermassive, light-sucking monsters develop in the heart of galaxies. Their find - a black hole more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, on the fringe of galaxy ESO 243-249 - is reported in the latest issue of Nature, the British-based science journal. In terms of size, it lies ... more  
Hanoi, Vietnam (XNA) Jul 02, 2009Vietnam's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said the country's first satellite image receiving station will be inaugurated in early July, the Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday. The station for the satellite image receiver is located in an outlying district of the capital city Hanoi, said Nguyen Xuan Lam, Director of the ministry's National Remote Sensing Center. It is ... more  
Luxembourg (SPX) Jul 02, 2009SES ASTRA has announced that it has renewed contracts with BSkyB (Sky) for 24 transponders on a long-term basis on ASTRA's 28.2 degrees East orbital position. In total Sky is using 31 transponders on the ASTRA satellite system. This agreement confirms a long-running relationship, which began in 1989 when Sky launched its first analogue multi-channel package on board the ASTRA 1A satellite. ... more 
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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Abu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Jul 02, 2009In the true global village that we live in today, hundreds of millions of emails and messages are exchanged over telecom networks, which sometimes leads to network congestion. When this happens, service quality and reliability are affected. Hence, telecom operators always attempt to combat traffic congestion as a way of guaranteeing broadband service quality. In the mobile satellite ... more 
Washington (AFP) June 30, 2009US and European scientists were Tuesday bidding farewell to the tenacious solar probe Ulysses which has been recording data around the sun for more than 18 years, four times longer than planned. "Ulysses has taught us more than we ever expected about the sun and the way it interacts with the space surrounding it," said Richard Marsden, Ulysses project manager with the European Space Agency ... more 
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  
New Delhi, India (XNA) Jul 02, 2009India will launch its indigenous Oceansat-2 satellite, along with six European nano satellites, next month, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said Wednesday. "Oceansat-2, weighing around 970 kg, is an in-orbit replacement to Oceansat-1, which has completed 10 years of service. It will carry an Ocean Color Monitor and a Ku-band pencil beam Scatterometer. In addition, it will ... more |
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