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There has been a delay of the Proton M Breeze M vehicle with the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite aboard, according to International Flight Services. Time is required to replace and retest an electrical component on the launcher.
Read MoreThe second of two satellites for Ariane 5’s next flight has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport.
Read MoreThe Sea Launch team arrived at the launch site in the Equatorial Pacific over the weekend and initiated a 72-hour countdown, in preparation for the launch of the EchoStar XI satellite on Tuesday, July 15.
Read MoreThere was something new on NASA's most recent space shuttle Discovery launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in the form of a new external fuel tank, ET-128.
Read MorePart one — mission accomplished. This is what GeoEye, Inc. [NASDAQ: GEOY], a provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, may have said when their satellite GeoEye-1 arrived safely at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California.
Read MoreThe launch of ProtoStar I, a high power Ku- and C-band satellite destined to provide DTH service to Asia, has been delayed until Monday, July 7th.
Read MoreIt's planned for August 14th—to liftoff Inmarsat and International Launch Services (ILS) next Proton Breeze M commercial mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Read MoreThe fifth Ariane-5 of this year has arrived in French Guiana—Arianespace keeps up its mission pace during the busiest year of commercial mission activity for this workhorse launch vehicle.
Read MoreJune 20th at Vandenburg AFB in California is the location... the date is June 20th... and vehicle is a Delta II rocket... and the payload is the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM/Jason 2).
Read MoreHigh-fives and a loud WooHoo! After a number of delays, finally, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:05 p.m. EDT, June 11th.
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