Asia Broadcast Satellite Prognosticates 2012 For ABS-2 Launch
Asia Broadcast Satellite has announced the Company has selected Space Systems/Loral to manufacture the ABS-2 spacecraft, which is scheduled for launch in 2012 with Arianespace.
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Arianespace Flying High with Bookings
Announced at the Paris Air Show, Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall said Arianespace already has signed 10 Service and Solutions contracts this year for payloads to be placed into geostationary transfer orbit.
Read MoreGalileo Sats Get Launch Agreements Signed, Sealed, + Delivered
ESA and Arianespace have signed a contract for the launch of the first four operational Galileo satellites on two Soyuz launch vehicles from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Read MoreRUAG Lifts Off With Larger Launcher Labors
RUAG Aerospace Sweden has been a supplier to the Ariane program since its very beginning and, due to the commercial success of the vehicle, a new batch of equipment has been ordered for an additional 35 missions.
Read MoreILS Illuminates Illustrious Inkings For This Year
ILS International Launch Services, Inc. (ILS) has now secured six firm launch orders and three mission assignments during the first half of 2009.
Read MoreSpaceX Windows Are Open with Launch of Falcon 1 Flight 5
Great news from Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Astronautic Technology (M) Sdn Bhd (ATSB) of Malaysia announce a new launch window has been set for Falcon 1 Flight 5, carrying the RazakSAT satellite to orbit.
Read MoreSirius FM-5 Set To Sound Off
Following the delivery, on May 22nd, of the Proton M booster rocket designated for the SIRIUS FM-5 launch, the aforementioned spacecraft was delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome on May 26th.
Read MoreRussians Take To Kourou With New Soyuz-ST
The maker of Russia's Soyuz rockets has finished building the first rockets due to be launched from South America pad, in cooperation with the European Space Agency.
Read MoreILS Encore! for SkyTerra’s Second Satellite
Congrats to International Launch Services (ILS) as it was announced today that it will launch the SkyTerra 2 satellite.
Read MoreTacSat-3 Takes To The Skies Via A Minotaur I — Launch Successful At Wallops
The sky lit up briefly the evening of May 19th as an Air Force Minotaur I rocket launched the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat-3 satellite, NASA's PharmaSat microsatellite and NASA's CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments into a low earth orbit. The launch occurred at 7:55 p.m. EDT, 20 minutes into the scheduled launch window.
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