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Decisions made by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center resulted in awarding United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the Wideband Global SATCOM-4 (WGS-4) satellite aboard a Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.
Read MoreIt may be the holidays for many around the world, but International Launch Services (ILS) and Boeing have been working to successfully carry the DIRECTV 12 satellite into orbit today launched from Pad 39 at the cosmodrome at 6:22 a.m. today local time (7:22 p.m. EDT, 00:22 GMT) for DIRECTV of El Segundo, California, on an ILS Proton.
Read MoreNo slowing down as the seventh and final Ariane 5 launch for 2009 has launched at the second attempt on Friday following a 24 hour scrub due to an unspecified issue with the launch platform.
Read MoreNASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, all flight engineers, launched in their Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:52 p.m. EST Sunday to begin a two-day journey to the International Space Station.
Read MoreUnited Launch Alliance capped 2009 with the launch of a Delta II carrying NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft at 6:09 a.m. PST, on Thursday, December the 17th.
Read MoreNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, successfully launched over the Pacific Ocean this morning at 9:09 a.m. EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light.
Read MoreThe launch of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission scheduled for Friday, December 11 has been delayed.
Read MoreDespite the rain, more than 400 notables gathered at Scaled Composites in the Mojave Desert to view the unveiling of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2), the world's first manned commercial spaceship, and its mothership, VMS Eve (named after Sir Branson's mother) (WhiteKnightTwo) advancing a new era in commercial space flight.
Read MorePersistence certainly paid off today, December 5, at Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida, with the launch of its 36th successful mission in 36 months for United Launch Alliance as the Delta IV rocket whisked the Air Force’s third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-3) satellite into orbit.
Read MoreArianespace’s wrap-up Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has entered final preparations for its liftoff next week with France’s Helios 2B military observation satellite.
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