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The third Thuraya communications satellite has now been shipped by Boeing [NYSE: BA] from their El Segundo, California manufacturing facility to the Sea Launch Home Port located in Long Beach, California. At the Sea Launch facility, the satellite will be prepped for its launch next month.
Read MoreThe Ariane 5 GS launcher for Arianespace's fourth flight of 2007 completed its build-up last Thursday, the 20th of September, with the installation of Intelsat 11 as its upper payload. During activity inside the Final Assembly Building at Europe's Spaceport, the upper payload "stack" was placed atop its Ariane 5.
Read MoreThe second satellite for Arianespace’s upcoming dual-passenger mission has now completed its fueling at Europe’s Spaceport and is ready for integration on the Ariane 5 GS launcher. Optus D2 was “topped off” in the S5B hall, which is one of three primary clean room zones within the state-of-the-art S5 satellite preparation facility at the Spaceport.
Read MoreAccording to the Hindustan Times online site, seven geo-stationary satellites are going to be built by India. According to India’s Secretary in the Department of Space (and the Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)), G. Madhavan Nair, the design of the satellites is more or less complete and they are in the process of building the first prototype model.
Read MoreYet another successful launch… the birds are truly flying well of late. INSAT-4CR was inserted into orbit by the GLSV-FO4 with a lift-off occurring from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota at 6:21 p.m. on Sunday, September 2nd. Packing 12 Ku-band transponders, the satellite was injected into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) of 170 km perigee and 35,975 km apogee with an orbital inclination of 21.7 degrees with respect to the equator about 17.55 minutes after lift-off.
Read MoreOne down, two to go… the first of three review phases required by the Safety Review Panel (SRP) at NASA have been completed quite successfully by SpaceX for the mission of sending their Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Over four days at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, SpaceX engineers who are developing the Dragon spacecraft presented their Phase I plan for this voyage to ISS.
Read MoreBetween September 17th and September 20th, the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, India is going to be a rather busy area. For the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is going to launch Polaris, an Israeli recon satellite, via a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
Read MoreNEW DELHI, INDIA: August 22, 2007—Satnews Daily—The latest communication satellite from India is scheduled to launch on September 1st from Sriharikota spaceport’s Satish Dhawan Space Center.
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