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The NOAA-N Prime spacecraft, the final Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), was launched successfully this morning at 2:22 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) built NOAA-N Prime at its Space Systems Company Sunnyvale facility.
Read MoreThe European Space Agency (ESA) is now gearing up to return to Russia to oversee preparations for the launch of its GOCE satellite — now envisaged for launch on March 16, 2009.
Read MorePetra Mateos-Aparicio, Chairman of Hispasat, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, have signed a launch service & solutions contract for the Hispasat-1E satellite, this now being the first contract of 2009 signed by Arianespace.
Read MoreIran has launched the Country's first indigenous satellite into orbit — such will certainly cause additional alarm within international community that is already at odds with Tehran over that country's desire to possess nuclear weaponry, especially given their oft-stated desire to eliminate certain neighbors from the map of the Middle East.
Read MoreIt’s “lights, camera…action” at the Spaceport this week as Ariane 5 stars in a National Geographic Channel television program spotlighting the launcher’s vital role in supporting global communications systems at the service of Arianespace’s international customer base.
Read MoreOn January 30th at European Space Agency headquarters in Paris, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace, and Alain Charmeau, Chief Executive Officer of Astrium Space Transportation, signed a contract for the production of 35 Ariane 5 ECA launchers (designated the “PB” batch).
Read MoreRussia's first carrier rocket launch of 2009 has been delayed until Friday, January 30th, for technical reasons, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said.
Read MoreA NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide is in final preparations for a February 23 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and is the first of its kind.
Read MoreFinal integration has been initiated for the multi-satellite payload to be carried on Arianespace's first Ariane 5 flight of 2009.
Read MoreThe launch of the NOAA-N Prime polar-orbiting weather satellite for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for Wednesday, February 4th.
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