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[SatNews] Moments ago a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3 East at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California at 9:03 p.m. PDT.
Read More[SatNews] Rascom-QAF1R and Nilesat 201 telecommunications satellites, launched from Kourou in French Guiana by an Ariane 5 ECA rocket on August 4, are now in operation.
Read More[SatNews] NASA has announced the awards for the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II Contract — the award will provide a broad range of launch services for NASA's planetary, Earth-observing, exploration, and scientific satellites.
Read More[SatNews] Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Astrium have engaged in a commercial agreement to provide dedicated launch services to the European institutional small satellite market.
Read More[SatNews] The European meteorological satellite organization EUMETSAT has selected Arianespace to launch its new satellite, Metop-C.
Read More[SatNews] A Russian Rokot carrier rocket orbited a Gonets-M satellite and two Kosmos satellites on Wednesday, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Read More[SatNews] Arianespace and the European Space Agency have signed a production contract for the first operational Vega launch.
Read More[SatNews] Here's looking at you...Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, [NYSE: LMT], announced today that it has been selected by GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) to launch the company's next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, GeoEye-2, on an Atlas V rocket.
Read More[SatNews] Every launch is important, but how about sending a half a dozen up, simultaneously?
Read More[SatNews] China has launched another new satellite, the TH-1 Tian Hui-1, on August 24, using a CZ-2D Chang Zheng-2D (Long March 2D) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
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