China launches remote-sensing satellite
China sent into space a remote-sensing satellite “Yaogan VIII” from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Tuesday morning, according to the center. The satellite, which was…
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Astrium to deliver into orbit the first military communication satellite for Germany
The first satellite is ready for launch in French Guiana The entire system will be fully operational by the end of 2010 once the second…
Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India’s Vanishing Water
WASHINGTON — Using NASA satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as one foot per…
SPACEX’S FALCON 1 SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERS RAZAKSAT SATELLITE TO ORBIT
Hawthorne, CA – (July 15, 2009) – Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) announces the successful launch of Falcon 1 Flight 5 launch vehicle and delivery…
Boeing Completes On-Orbit Handover of 2nd Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite to US Air Force
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 17, 2009 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] on June 15 successfully transferred control of the second Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite to…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
GOCE satellite launch – mapping the Earth’s gravity as never before
9 March 2009 ESA PR 04-2009. ESA is about to launch the most sophisticated of Earth Observation satellites to investigate the Earth’s gravitational field with…
Boeing Ships Next-Generation Weather Satellite GOES-O to Launch Site
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 04, 2009 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] and NASA announced today that the second of three next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)…
NASA’s Launch Of Carbon-Seeking Satellite is Unsuccessful
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite failed to reach orbit after its 4:55 a.m. EST liftoff Tuesday from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. Preliminary…
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