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SSTL's UK-DMC2 satellite has successfully completed pre-launch tests and is integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in readiness for launch on Wednesday, July 29, 2009, at 18:46 UTC, 19:46 BST.
Read MoreThe Optus D3 telecommunications satellite is undergoing its pre-launch checkout at Europe’s Spaceport in preparation for an August liftoff on Arianespace’s fourth heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission of 2009.
Read MoreNot necessarily a bouncing bundle of joy — but certainly an accomplishment — a major feat as Optus D3 was delivered today (July 21) making it the second of two satellite payloads for Arianespace's mid-August Ariane 5 mission in French Guiana, moving this heavy-lift launch campaign
Read MoreArianespace has received its fourth Ariane 5 for launch in 2009, while the first of two payloads for this upcoming mission is now at the Spaceport for final preparation.
Read MoreScience and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor has confirmed that the South African government expects the country’s Sumbandila microsatellite (SumbandilaSat) to be launched next month.
Read MoreInteresting location for construction of the QuetzSat-1 involving ILS International Launch Services (ILS) and SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) which announced their agreement for the launch of QuetzSat-1 on an ILS Proton in 2011. QuetzSat-1 is under construction by Space Systems/Loral on behalf of SES Satellite Leasing Limited in the Isle of Man.
Read MoreThey have arrived and now AsiaSat 5, a new communications satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), has settled in at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in preparation for launch by a Proton launch vehicle currently scheduled for early to mid-August.
Read MoreSpace Exploration Technologies' Falcon 1 rocket lifted off from Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Western Pacific at 11:35 p.m. EDT/0335 GMT on Tuesday carrying the 400-pound (180-kg) RazakSAT satellite, designed and built by ATSB of Malaysia.
Read MoreSpace Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ:LORL) has shipped a new communications satellite built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it is scheduled to launch in early- to mid-August aboard a ILS Proton Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS).
Read MoreSurrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is preparing two satellites for launch on July 25th.
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