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Arianespace's ability to accommodate its customers' launch timing requirements is being demonstrated once again with the scheduling of Eutelsat's W3B telecommunications satellite for an Ariane 5 launch this August/September.
Read MoreA contest was held by NASA to commerate the the retirement of the space shuttle.
Read MoreCape Canaveral AFS, Fla. (Feb. 10, 2010) - The launch attempt of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V with NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite was scrubbed today due to high ground winds violating launch weather criteria.
Read MoreThe DIRECTV 12 communications satellite is now scheduled for launch from Baikonur on December 29th at 06:22 local time, 00:22 GMT, and 19:22 EST (December 28th). The launch will be undertaken by a Proton M/Breeze M rocket from Launch Pad 39.
Read MoreDuring the final count-down operations for Flight 193 slated for today, an anomaly occurred in a launcher subsystem.
Read MoreArianespace’s seventh and final Ariane 5 launch of 2009 has been given the green light, clearing this mission for a mid-day liftoff on December 9 with the French Helios 2B military observation satellite.
Read MoreThe Land Launch team today halted the launch of the Intelsat 15 communications satellite at L-3:14:00 in the countdown at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
Read MoreThe launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, aboard a Delta II rocket is scheduled to occur between 9:09 a.m. and 9:23 a.m. EST on Wednesday, December 9, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Read MoreThe launch of the U.S. Air Force's Delta IV Wideband Global SATCOM-3 mission scheduled for December 2nd has been delayed 24 hours, due to approaching inclement weather.
Read MoreThe Press Trust of India is reporting the ISRO is planning 36 launches during the a six year period of time, a top space official said here today.
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