ORBCOMM’s Synchronicity Sends Six Soaring
Quite an achievement...ORBCOMM Inc. [NASDAQ: ORBC] has announced that six new ORBCOMM satellites have been successfully launched from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
Read MoreMission Deployments & Manifests
ProtoStar-I Gets Pumped Up, Fuel-wise
The fourth Ariane 5 flight for this year is continuing its preparation in French Guiana for launch, as Arianespace ensures the mission's ProtoStar-I payload is fueled in the S5A hall of the Spaceport's satellite work facility.
Read MoreNASA’s Shuttle Discovery—You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
Perfect. That's pretty much the description of the return trip that the space shuttle Discovery and its crew enjoyed as they landed without incidence at Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday at 11:15 EDT.
Read MoreSkynet-5C + Turksat-3A Success… Astrium, Paradigm, + Thales Alenia Space Delighted!
Astrium and Paradigm and Thales Alenia Space complete their satellite launch for Skynet-5 and Turksat-3A.
Read MoreDiscovery Coming Home
>Hopefully the return of the space shuttle Discovery crew will go smoothly when they land on Saturday, June 14 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:15 a.m. EDT.
Read MoreNASA Has One Coming Home + One Heading Out On Wednesday
At 7:42 a.m. EDT, Discovery is scheduled to undock from the ISS to initiate the return home of the STS-124 crew.
Read MoreArianespace Launch Back On Track
After a delay, the lift-off of an Ariane 5 launch vehicle carrying the Skynet-5C and Turksat-3A is now scheduled for Thursday, June 12th.
Read MoreChinaSat-9 Propelled Into Orbit
ChinaSat-9 has been launched into orbit — otherwise known as ZhongXing-9 (ZX-9), the satellite was carried aloft by a CZ-3B Chang Zeng-3B (CZ3B-10 launch vehicle from the LC2 launch complex at the XiChang Launch Center.
Read MoreDragon, ISS, SpaceX + NASA To Provide For One Another
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and NASA's Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Facility at Fairmont, West Virginia, working through the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) of Greenbelt, Maryland, have announced the signing of a Space Act Agreement effort to advance the state of the art in mission as well as safety-critical software that will be used for sending SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
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