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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 MoreInternational 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 MoreNASA 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 MoreArianespace 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 MoreArianespace 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 MoreThe 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 MoreNorth 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 MoreXCOR Aerospace presented Tuskegee Airman Le Roy Gillead, of San Francisco, with a ticket for a ride to the edge of space.
Read MoreMuch activity is taking place as Arianespace's development of its commercial launcher family gains new momentum at the Spaceport in French Guiana to support the sustained mission rate for heavy-lift Ariane 5, and to prepare for future missions of the medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight Vega vehicles.
Read MoreArianespace has successfully launched Ariane 5, which orbited payloads for two of the world’s leading satellite communications operators — Eutelsat and SES.
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