Astrium signs strategic partnership agreement with Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan will order two Earth observation satellites from Astrium Astrium will set up a joint venture with its partner JSC National Company “Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary 
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Herschel – The largest space observatory on its way
Photo: Herschel Today´s Ariane 5 Launch from Kourou marks the 30th successful launch in a row Astrium builds the world’s largest space telescope Instruments can…
Herschel and Planck launcher at launch pad
At around 13:40 CEST today, 8:40 at the launch site in Kourou, the Ariane 5 carrying Herschel and Planck rolled out onto the launch pad…
Satellite imagery shows fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf destabilised
28 April 2009 Satellite images show that icebergs have begun to calve from the northern front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf – indicating that the…
SpaceX Signs Argentina’s Space Agency For Two Falcon 9 Launches
Pair of SAOCOM Earth Observation Satellites to Launch between 2012 & 2013 Hawthorne, California – April 16, 2009 – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has signed…
Boeing Ships IndoStar II / ProtoStar II Satellite to Baikonur Launch Site
EL SEGUNDO, April 15, 2009 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that it has shipped the IndoStar II/ProtoStar II satellite from the company’s satellite manufacturing…
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Successfully Tests Propulsion Technology to Send Humans to Moon, Mars and Beyond
CANOGA PARK, Calif., April 6, 2009 –Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne completed a series of successful hot-fire tests for a propulsion system that could lead to…
Boeing-Built Satellite WGS-2 Sends 1st Signals From Space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 06, 2009 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has acquired the first on-orbit signals from the second of six Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS)…
Fifth European Conference on Space Debris to address key issues
ESA PR 07-2009. The European Space Agency will host the 5th European Conference on Space Debris at ESA’s Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany,…
Seventh Modernized GPS Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Successfully Launched From Cape Canaveral
Satellite Includes Demonstration Payload for New Third Civil Signal CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla, March 24th, 2009 — A Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT]-built modernized Global…
GOCE launch confirmed for Tuesday 17 March
16 March 2009Â Â The launch of ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has been confirmed for Tuesday 17 March at 15:21 CET….
ESA’s gravity satellite moves to launch pad
With liftoff just five days away, ESA’s GOCE spacecraft – encased in the protective half-shells of the launcher fairing – has been transported from the…
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