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Air Force officials at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico are delaying the launch of Tactical Satellite-3 until repairs to a spacecraft avionics component, critical to the system's operational capability, are complete.
Read MoreTwo satellites should be raring to go later this year from Spacehab Inc.'s Astrotech subsidiary. Two contracts totaling $3.2 million from United Launch Alliance (ULA) . . .
Read MoreJust arriving and preparing for the launch is the HOT BIRD-10 satellite for Arianespace's initial Ariane 5 mission of 2009, which was delivered to French Guiana aboard a chartered cargo jetliner for its transatlantic trip from Europe.
Read MoreSpace Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [Nasdaq:LORL] today announced that it shipped Telstar 11N to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it will be launched on the Land Launch system.
Read MoreThe in-orbit validation programme for Galileo, Europe’s global satellite navigation system, is celebrating three years since the first signal was broadcast by the GIOVE-A satellite.
Read MoreThe Eutelsat HOT BIRDT-10 satellite has initiated its pre-launch processing in preparation for this telecom spacecraft's orbiting on the initial Ariane 5 flight of 2009.
Read MoreMitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has received an order from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute for the launch of a South Korean multipurpose satellite, to be aided by Japan's domestically developed main rocket the H-2A.
Read MoreThe HOT BIRD-10 satellite for Arianespace's initial Ariane 5 mission of 2009 was delivered to French Guiana on January 8, arriving aboard a chartered cargo jetliner for its transatlantic trip from Europe.
Read MoreThe Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is expected to launch a new weather satellite, the 'Mehga Tropiques' during 2009.
Read MoreEngineers are preparing to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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