Driving WorldView-4 To A Better Pad
There was little rest for the satellite—the WorldView-4 was placed into a truck with a super special container that actually duplicated the cleanroom environment where the satellite was manufactured.
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New Pads To Be Called Home For Moon Express At Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral is also something extra special for Moon Express with two pads ready for action.
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Aye, Lad! Glasgow Prestwick Spaceport, XCOR And Orbital Access Limited Sign On For Scottish Manned Space Launch
"I was delighted to have been able to play my part in Prestwick's future by convincing the UK Government to abandon their plan for a single Spaceport site..."
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Ordains Expansion At Stennis For AR1 Rocket Engine Endeavors
The company is going to expand their Center of Excellence for Large Liquid Rocket Engine Assembly and test at Stennis.
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Returning A Falcon 9 Booster To Port Canaveral Could Be Costly For SpaceX
Two other proposed routes for new rail service from Port Canaveral also have been proposed, although the port had put those proposals on hold while it focuses on the feasibility of a rail route through the Air Force station.
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Arianespace’s Fregat’s Fueling Facility Preps For Soyuz Launch To Galileo Constellation
Named the FCube (Fregat Fueling Facility), the purpose-built installation is utilized to "top off" Fregat upper stages during Soyuz launch campaigns at the Spaceport.
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THAICOM 8’s Trip From Orbital ATK’s Virginia Facility To Cape Canaveral Is Successfully Completed
THAICOM 8 is the second satellite Orbital ATK has built for <em><strong>Thaicom PLC</strong></em> and is based on the company’s flight-proven GEOStar-2™ platform.
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First Launch Scheduled For Late April For Russia’s Vostochny Spaceport
The construction of the Vostochny space launch center in the Amur region began in 2012.
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Crawling To Mars
CT-2 moved along the crawlerway at no more than one mile per hour and will complete its journey to the pad after numerous scheduled stops along the way to verify the operation of the completed upgrades
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Assembly Started By Arianespace For Their Second Ariane 5 Launch Of 2016
The process began with this week's positioning of the launcher's central core cryogenic stage over one of two mobile launch tables utilized for Ariane 5.
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