Update: Today’s launch has been scrubbed due to high winds. A commercial Soyuz booster is ready for liftoff today out of the Guiana Space Center in South America at 2:53 p.m. (3:53) local carrying four 03b communications satellites. Today’s launch marks the inauguration of a new network of satellites built by Thales Alenia, operating out of medium Earth orbit at an altitude of […]
The latest resupply mission to the International Space Station got off to a perfect start yesterday evening with the launch of an Ariane V rocket carrying the Automated Transfer Vehicle ATV-4, “Albert Einstein.” There is one more ATV planned for ISS, after which the European Space Agency will supply a modified version of the propulsion […]
The countdown is underway at Kourou, French Guiana for this evening’s launch of the European ATV supply ship “Albert Einstein” to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled aboard the Ariane V booster at precisely 6:52:11 p.m. local (5:52:11 p.m. US EDT.) Today’s launch will mark the fourth flight of the Automated Transfer Vehicle, and the heaviest […]
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