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The U.S. Air Force has successfully launched the seventh modernized Global Positioning System IIR-M satellite carried aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at 4:34 a.m. EDT March 24th from Space Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Read MoreWith a window from 4:34 to 4:49 a.m., March 24th appears to be an auspicious day for the launch of the Delta II and the GPS IIR-20 payload.
Read MoreThe U.S. Air Force is scheduled to launch the seventh modernized Global Positioning System (GPS) IIR-M satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket on March 24th from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.?
Read MoreImpressive moves were made by vehicles as they jockeyed with the final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket as it left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday and began a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read MoreFrom RIA Novosti, Russia's new Angara carrier rocket will start test flights in 2011, the rocket's developer said on Wednesday.
Read MoreThe assembly of another new Ariane 5 is now underway at the Spaceport in French Guiana as parallel preparations advance for two upcoming missions with Arianespace’s workhorse heavy-lift launcher.
Read MoreInternational Launch Services (ILS) and SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) have announced three new launch assignments under the Multi Launch Agreement that was signed in June 2007 between ILS and SES Satellite Leasing Limited, SES’ satellite procurement and leasing company in the Isle of Man.
Read MoreDelta II launch of the Air Force’s GPS IIR-20 satellite scheduled for 24 March with a launch window of 4:34-4:49 a.m. EDT.
Read MoreAlliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has successfully completed testing for a new class of hypersonic propulsion systems that will enable High Speed Strike Weapons and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to travel long distances at velocities more than 5x the speed of sound.
Read MoreThree Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) successfully boosted the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station onboard Space Shuttle Discovery yesterday (March 15th).
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