UPDATE: SpaceX Went Up And Came Down Landing On Target…It’s A First! (Demo Launch)
[SatNews] A new frontier has been entered as SpaceX conducted a successful launch from Cape Canaveral today.
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ILS + Khrunichev… Failure Interim Report Due Soon (Launch)
[SatNews] On December 5th, a Russian Federal mission of a Proton M Block DM-03 vehicle was launched with three GLONASS-M navigation satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and a mission failure resulted.
Read MoreRussia… Programming Problem Pushed Glonass Into Pacific (Launch)
[SatNews] According to sources in the Russian space industry, a program error caused a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket to deviate from its course and lose a booster carrying three Glonass-M satellites.
Read MoreRussia… Deviant Delivery Into The Pacific Ocean (Satellites)
[SatNews] According to RIA Novosti, the Russian International News Agency, has reported that the DM-3 booster, with three Glonass-M satellites aboard, fell into the Pacific Ocean some 1500 kilometers northwest of Honolulu on December 5th, this according to a source in the aerospace industry.
Read MoreArianespace… Sicral 2 Signed On (Launch)
[SatNews] Telespazio (Finmeccanica/Thales) has selected Arianespace to launch the Sicral 2 satellite in the framework of a turnkey contract that the Italian Defense Ministry and the French DGA armament agency (Direction G?n?rale de l’Armement) have with Thales Alenia Space Italy.
Read MoreULA… Hooray! Send Up the Rockets
[SatNews] Reason for reflection and celebration but no time to sit still...United Launch Alliance Enters its Fifth Year with 45 Launches in 48 Months of Operation
Read MoreSpace Systems/Loral…Spreads, Thrusts And Fires (Launch)
[SatNews] The successful Intelsat launch on Friday from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana is continuing to deliver positive signals.
Read MoreArianespace… Perfect Pairing Push Off (Launch)
[SatNews] The fifth Arianespace mission of 2010 orbited two telecommunicationspayloads today: one for an emerging new player in the broadband marketplace;and the other for a long-time customer that is the world's leading providerof fixed satellite services.
Read MoreMasten Space Systems… Big Demo Deal (Launch)
[SatNews] Masten Space Systems and Space Florida haver signed a Letter of Intent to explore performing demonstration launches of a Masten suborbital reusable launch vehicle from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Read MoreFAA Grants SpaceX First-Ever…Right To Re-enter (Launch and Return)
[SatNews] Commercial launch spacecraft have always traveled in a one-way direction. That is until today when the FAA made SpaceX the first-ever commercial company to receive a license to re-enter a spacecraft from orbit. Not since the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation was created in 1984, and having issued licenses for more than 200 launches has any company been granted the right to return.?
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