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A 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.
Read MoreUnited Launch Alliance (ULA) marked its first anniversary of operation on December 1, 2007, with company-wide employee celebrations and preparations for the final three launches of the year.
Read MoreThe Air Force successfully launched the final Defense Support Program satellite 23 into space atop a giant Delta IV Heavy Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) from Pad 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base at 8:50 p.m. EDT last evening. This launch marked the first use of the Delta IV HLV for an operational mission on a day honoring our nation’s veterans.
Read MoreThe green light has been given to Arianespace for the dual payload Ariane 5 mission. Liftoff should occur today, Friday, November 9th, as the launch readiness review at the Spaceport in French Guiana was completed yesterday.
Read MoreThe 1,727th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle, Moiniya, occurred last Tuesday, October 23rd, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. The lift-off occurred at 8:30 a.m., Moscow time. Starsem, Arianespace and their Russian partners all report the government’s spacecraft was accurately placed in target orbit.
Read MoreThe Russian State Commission investigating the unsuccessful launch last month of a Proton vehicle carrying the JCSAT-11 satellite has determined that a damaged pyro firing cable on the interstage truss prevented the activation of the pyro bolts that were to have separated the first and second stages of the rocket. Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) and chairman of the 18-member investigative commission, announced the findings after meeting with government officials in Kazakhstan.
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