ILS Proton Signed On To Launch Intelsat 16
International Launch Services (ILS) and Intelsat have announced a contract for the launch of the Intelsat 16 satellite on an ILS Proton later this year.
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U.S.A.F. Successfully Launches 7th GPS IIR-M Satellite
The U.S. Air Force has successfully launched the seventh modernized Global Positioning System IIR-M satellite carried aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at 4:34 a.m. EDT March 24th from Space Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Read MorePilgrimage From Promontory Ares I-X — EnRoute to Kennedy
Impressive moves were made by vehicles as they jockeyed with the final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket as it left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday and began a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read MoreTriple Launch Play For ILS From SES
International Launch Services (ILS) and SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) have announced three new launch assignments under the Multi Launch Agreement that was signed in June 2007 between ILS and SES Satellite Leasing Limited, SES’ satellite procurement and leasing company in the Isle of Man.
Read MoreReady? Set? No! NASA STS-119 — At Least Not Tonight . . .NEW UPDATE HERE
NASA officials scrubbed Wednesday’s attempt at 2:37 EDT to launch space shuttle Discovery after a slight leak was detected in a gaseous hydrogen (GH2) vent line.
Read MoreHerschel + Planck’s Space Ride Arrives
Arianespace has taken delivery of its second Ariane 5 ECA for launch in 2009, receiving the heavy-lift vehicle for installation of two spacecraft that will study the universe's origins.
Read MoreAriane 5 ECA Travels To French Guiana For TerreStar-1
Arianespace is maintaining its Ariane 5 mission pace with this week's delivery of the third heavy-lift vehicle to be launched in 2009 from the Spaceport in French Guiana.
Read MoreLand Launch Success for Telstar 11N Satellite
The Land Launch Zenit-3SLB system today successfully inserted Telesat’s Telstar 11N communications satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit from the Zenit launch site at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
Read MoreSatellite Launch By North Korea Expected By Early May
North Korea said Tuesday it was readying to launch a satellite, a move that the United States and its allies believe could actually be a long-range missile test that would deepen global tensions.
Read MoreFrom A B-25 To Lynx Suborbital Space Craft For Tuskegee Airman
XCOR Aerospace presented Tuskegee Airman Le Roy Gillead, of San Francisco, with a ticket for a ride to the edge of space.
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