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The Air Force successfully launched the final Defense Support Program satellite 23 into space atop a giant Delta IV Heavy Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) from Pad 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base at 8:50 p.m. EDT last evening. This launch marked the first use of the Delta IV HLV for an operational mission on a day honoring our nation’s veterans.
Read MoreICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited [NASDAQ: ICOG] is delighted with Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services (LMCLS). In consultation with the United Launch Alliance (ULA), LMCLS has established a slot of March 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008 for the launch of their G1 satellite at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Read MoreThe green light has been given to Arianespace for the dual payload Ariane 5 mission. Liftoff should occur today, Friday, November 9th, as the launch readiness review at the Spaceport in French Guiana was completed yesterday.
Read MoreThe first pan-African telecommunications satellite Rascom 1 landed at Cayenne's Rochambeau International Airport aboard an Antonov An-125 cargo jetliner and has arrived at Europe's Spaceport in preparation for Arianespace's sixth Ariane 5 mission of 2007.
Read MoreSpace Exploration Technologies Corp., otherwise known as SpaceX, conducted official ground breaking ceremonies today at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This opens a new era in commercial space operations for the company.
Read MoreThe Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port. This is all in preparation for the launch of the Thuraya-3 satellite.
Read MoreNASA’s Space Shuttle Program has successfully fired a four-segment, reusable solid rocket motor. This occurred on Thursday, November 1st, at the ATK Launch Systems Group, a test facility located in Promontory, Utah, and burned for approximately two minutes.
Read MoreThe 1,727th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle, Moiniya, occurred last Tuesday, October 23rd, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. The lift-off occurred at 8:30 a.m., Moscow time. Starsem, Arianespace and their Russian partners all report the government’s spacecraft was accurately placed in target orbit.
Read MoreThe Russian State Commission investigating the unsuccessful launch last month of a Proton vehicle carrying the JCSAT-11 satellite has determined that a damaged pyro firing cable on the interstage truss prevented the activation of the pyro bolts that were to have separated the first and second stages of the rocket. Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) and chairman of the 18-member investigative commission, announced the findings after meeting with government officials in Kazakhstan.
Read MoreLaunch service contracts for two future NASA space exploration missions have been landed by United Launch Alliance. The missions will be Landsat and Juno, scheduled to launch in 2011.
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