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[SatNews][ Lifting off from the Spaceport in French Guiana, an Arienespace' Ariane 5 deployed its two passengers during a mission lasting 34 minutes, the 41st consecutive successful flight for Ariane 5 occurring just one month after the previous mission in November.
Read More[SatNews] International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried the KA-SAT satellite to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton.
Read More[SatNews] The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace have signed a launch Service & Solutions contract for the Sentinel-1A satellite as part of the European program GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security).
Read More[SatNews] Basic build-up of the milestone 200th Ariane for launch is now complete at the Spaceport, marking a new milestone in preparations for an Ariane 5 mission that will loft a European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) next February to service the International Space Station.
Read More[SatNews] The mission wasn't exactly accomplished this last April 15 when what would have been the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) flight test of the indigenous Cryogenic Engine in the GSLV-D3 mission failed.
Read More[SatNews] The main cause of the loss of Russia's three Glonass-M satellites was due to human error from fueling the booster rocket with an excess of 1.5-2 tons of fuel, the head of the Russian state commission probing the incident said on Friday, in an article posted by RIA Novosti.
Read More[SatNews] The Army's first satellite in more than 50 years piggybacked into low earth orbit Wednesday as part of SpaceX's launch of its two-stage Falcon 9 booster rocket and prototype reusable space capsule, Dragon.
Read More[SatNews] The preliminary report of the Russian State Commission investigating the cause of the Proton M Block DM-03 GLONASS launch failure on December 5 exonerates the performance of the Proton M, built and operated by Khrunichev State Research and Production Center (Khrunichev) as a cause of the Proton M Block DM-03 GLONASS mission failure.
Read More[SatNews] While SpaceX was planning the first civilian launch from the Cape yesterday, rumors were flying about the 'secret' payload on board the Dragon.
Read More[SatNews] The very first Falcon 9 demonstration package launched successfully from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the Dragon capsule now in orbit.
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