ILS 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.
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TacSat-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.
Read MoreScrubs Are For Operating Room Professionals — Hopefully Not For The Next TacSat-3 Launch
The U.S.A.F. will attempt to launch a Minotaur I rocket carrying with it the Air Force Research Laboratory’s TacSat-3 satellite, NASA’s PharmaSat microsatellite and NASA’s CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments — this is the fourth attempt to launch the rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Pad 0B and it will occur on May 19th during a four hour long launch window, starting at 7:35 p.m. EDT. A backup date of May 20th has also been established, should such become necessary. The launch windows are identical for both days.
Read MorePutin Pushes For More Launch Vehicles — Could Capture 50 Percent Of Market
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stated Russia must strengthen its competitive positions on the global commercial space launch market by expanding its launch facilities and developing new types of carrier rockets.
Read MoreAriane 5 Lifts Off — Herschel and Planck Have Keys to Go Back to the Future
These are exciting times, SatNews.com has been reporting almost a launch a day, and this day is no exception — two of the most ambitious missions ever attempted to unveil the secrets of the darkest, coldest and oldest parts of the Universe got off to a successful start this afternoon.
Read MoreNo Gifts Please for Celebration of 10 Years of First Dnepr Launc
SSTL and ISC Kosmotras are celebrating 10 years of successful cooperation, since the SSTL mini-satellite UoSAT-12 made history as the first successful orbital injection by the Dnepr launch vehicle in April 1999.
Read MoreSoyuz Ferrying Function Requires More Millions
RIA Novosti is reporting that Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA have agreed on a new price for ferrying U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2012, a Russian space official said on Wednesday.
Read MoreMasten Makes The Xombie Fly
Masten Space Systems completed their first vertical take-off, vertical-landing (VTVL) rocket flight demo last Friday.
Read MoreAtlantis Good to GOOOOOO!
No birds were observed in the flight path — and so at last the Atlantis was good to go — and it did — just as planned! Today was a picture perfect day with a picture perfect launch off of Launch Pad 39-A.
Read MoreATK Rockets Ram Shuttle Hubbleward…
Alliant Techsystem's Reusable Solid Rocket Motors (RSRM) ignited and sent NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis and its crew on their journey to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
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