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SpaceX has done very well in providing Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program for NASA, which was validated in 2006 when SpaceX won the NASA COTS competition to demonstrate transporting of cargo and, optionally, crew to and from the International Space Station.
Read MoreThe Express-AM44 and Express-MD1 satellites have been successfully launched into target orbit by a Proton-M rocket with Breeze-M accelerator and are now under control of the RSCC satellite mission control center.
Read MoreArianespace's initial Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has been given the go-ahead for its February 12 liftoff following completion of the mission's launch readiness review, which was held today at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
Read MoreThe launch vehicle for Arianespace's second Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has begun its assembly at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking the startup of preparations for a dual-satellite mission that will yield new insights into the formation of stars and the universe's creation.
Read MoreNASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corp. to launch the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, high energy X-ray telescope.
Read MoreA new NOAA polar-orbiting environmental satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 6th and is now circling the globe every 102 minutes, taking images and measurements to support NOAA’s efforts to forecast and monitor the environment. NOAA-19 joins NOAA-18 and one European environmental satellite already in polar orbit.
Read MoreAlliant Techsystems played a key role in the successful launch of United Launch Alliance's Delta II rocket from NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying the NOAA-N Prime satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Read MoreThe 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.
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