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CSA Engineering, a wholly owned subsidiary of Moog Inc., announced that its ESPA (EELV Secondary Payload Adapter) is expected to impact the lunar surface on October 9, 2009, as part of NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission.
Read MoreIt was an ambitious last week at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston as preparations continued for the STS-129 mission to the International Space Station — the schedule remains on target.
Read MoreIt was a go as Flight Engineers Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Suraev of the 21st International Space Station crew were launched in their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:14 a.m. EDT Wednesday to begin a six-month stay in space.
Read MoreSpace Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL) has delivered a satellite built for Intelsat to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it is scheduled to launch later this year aboard an Atlas V rocket.
Read MoreThe ongoing process of building, moving and launching satellites is now underway with Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), [Nasdaq:LORL], a provider of commercial satellites that today shipped a communications satellite built for SES WORLD SKIES, to Kourou, French Guiana, to launch later this year aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle.
Read MoreTelenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) today announced that its spacecraft, THOR 6, has arrived safely at the Guiana Spaceport in Kourou.
Read MoreRussia's space chief said last Friday that the launch of three satellites aimed at bolstering the country's planned GPS-type navigation system was delayed due to a malfunction in an earlier launched satellite, this according to news agencies.
Read MoreCollaboration of the best kind occurs when companies work together and meet their milestones such as Boeing Launch Services and United Launch Alliance launch WorldView-2, with the second of the DigitalGlobe next-generation class of imaging satellites.
Read MoreIt is a busy time as launch vehicles for three upcoming Arianespace missions are now at the Spaceport in French Guiana following this week's delivery of components for Ariane 5's record seventh flight of 2009.
Read MoreOn August 29, India aborted an $82 million mission to map the surface of the moon after losing contact with its unmanned Chandrayaan I craft. Today they turned the negative into a positive and more than made up for this by launching seven satellites from a single rocket, demonstrating its growing skills in multi-satellite launches.
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