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NASA Launch Services contract are multiple awards assigned to many launch service providers. Twice each year, existing and emerging domestic launch service providers may submit proposals to NASA placing them into consideration for these contracts, if their vehicles meet the minimum contract requirements.
Read MoreArianespace successfully launched telecommunications satellites for Brazil and Vietnam on the company's 24th consecutive mission success of Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Read MoreThe launch readiness review completed, Arianespace could make it official — the second Ariane 5 flight for this year has the green light.
Read MoreThree additional Minotaur space launch vehicles, to support the new Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office, have been ordered by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC) — and the recipient of the order is Orbital Sciences Corporation.
Read MoreDuring the second burn of the Breeze M launch vehicle's upper stage, something untoward occurred and the AMC-14 satellite failed to reach orbit.
Read MoreA new contract has been signed between International Launch Services (ILS) and SIRIUS Satellite Radio [NASDAQ:SIRI] that will result in the launch of two SIRIUS satellites via a Proton Breeze M vehicle. Plus, ILS has signed on to launch S2M satellite.
Read MoreInternational Launch Services (ILS) is set to launch the THOR 5 satellite aboard a Proton M/Breeze M launch vehicle.
Read MoreUnited Launch Alliance successfully launched a Delta II expendable launch vehicle on Thursday, December 20th, from Space Launch Complex 17-A at 3:04 p.m., EST. Carried aloft was the Air Force’s GPS IIR-18(M) satellite.
Read MoreA RS-27a rocket engine powered the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket that carried aloft the Italian Space Agency's COSMO/SkyMed-2 satellite from Vandenburg A.F.B. last Saturday night.
Read MoreThe Ariane 5 for Arianespace's record sixth flight of 2007 has been transferred to the Final Assembly Building at the Spaceport in French Guiana in preparation for its December launch. Ariane 5 GS was rolled out yesterday from the Spaceport's Launcher Integration Building.
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