The Boeing — Baikonur Connection For DIRECTV 12
Boeing [NYSE: BA] has shipped DIRECTV 12 from the Company's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch facility in Kazakhstan.
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GOES-10 Is Going, Going… Gone…
NOAA officially deactivated its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-10 today after 12 years of service.
Read MoreIS-15 Is Into Space
Intelsat, Ltd. has announced that a Zenit-3SLB vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 15 satellite (IS-15) from the Land Launch facilities at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
Read MoreThales Alenia Space And ESA Provide Extra Real Estate To ISS
At a ceremony today at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Tranquillity Node was transferred from European Space Agency to NASA, bringing extra living and working space one step closer to astronauts on board the International Space Station.
Read MoreULA’s Intelsat-14 — Part Of World’s Largest Fixed Satellite — Hopes For Launch
Once again the genius of man who creates sophisticated vehicles for space is reduced to the whims of the weather, and so it is for the upcoming launch of Intelsat-14 which is set for Monday, November 23, with a launch window of 12:50-2:20 a.m. EST.
Read MoreAPT Satellite Holdings Will Be Beholding To China For Sat Launch In 2012
China will launch a French-made communications satellite for the Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Holding Limited during the first half of 2012.
Read MoreAstrium- + KARI-Built Satellite To Launch In March Of Next Year
South Korea is planning to launch its first weather-communications satellite into space in March, 2010, the country's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said on Friday — the satellite was developed jointly by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and France's Astrium.
Read MoreAvanti’s HYLAS Arrives At ISRO Facility In India — Coundown Time
Avanti Communications Group plc [AIM: AVN], the broadband satellite operator, is pleased to announce that its HYLAS satellite payload has arrived safely at the ISRO satellite assembly facility in India where it is now being integrated into the platform and prepared for launch.
Read MoreSMOS Armed + Star-Like
Following the launch of ESA’s SMOS satellite on November 2nd, the French space agency CNES, which is responsible for operating the satellite, has confirmed the instrument’s three antenna arms have deployed as planned, and that the instrument is in good health.
Read MoreEncouraged By Excellent Encapsulation Of WGS-3 Delta IV Readies For Launch
The encapsulation procedure in preparation for the launch of the U.S. Air Force’s third Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft was successfully completed on October 30 by engineers at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida.
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