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More good news from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Tuesday when NASA's PharmaSat nanosatellite successfully launched at 7:55 p.m. EDT and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at Wallops Island,
Read MoreThe Spaceport's S5 payload preparation facility has become the center of attention for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission as the TerreStar-1 satellite passenger begins its pre-launch checkout process.
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Read MoreThis time the countdown got to within 2 minutes and 15 seconds of liftoff, but a low-voltage reading from somewhere inside the Minotaur 1 rocket or its payload last night aborted the count at about 10:43 p.m.
Read MoreOriginally planned for a May 6 launch the U.S. Air Force planned to launch a Minotaur 1 rocket with a new satellite from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, however a heavy cloud cover has scrapped those plans.
Read MoreThe SICRAL 1B satellite is scheduled for launch on April 19, on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Defence.
Read MoreThe second Ariane 5 launch of 2009 is now scheduled for a May 6 liftoff, following additional flight worthiness checks performed on one of its two payloads: the Herschel space telescope.
Read MoreVerifications of the European space science payload on Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission are being continued, resulting in the postponement of a final launch date determination by a few days.
Read MoreWeather and other issues have been frustrating factors in the launch of the Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM-2 satellite aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, that is now officially scheduled on the Eastern Range for April 3.
Read MoreThe U.S. Air Force will launch the second Wideband Global SATCOM satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on March 31 at 9:32 p.m. EDT from Pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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