Tag: satellite

SpaceX Seattle Satellite Venture: Recruiting for a City on Mars

SpaceX Seattle Satellite Venture: Recruiting for a City on Mars

(Updated to include video) In the weeks immediately following the end of the college football season, coaching staffs undertake what may be the hardest part of the year, convincing hyper talented all stars to come be a part of their program. For big time programs with big time ambitions, that often means staging elaborate productions […]

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SpaceX Awarded Launch Orders for 2018, 2019; First From a European Government

SpaceX Awarded Launch Orders for 2018, 2019; First From a European Government

SpaceX Press Release: August 8, 2013 SPACEX IS AWARDED LAUNCH OF GERMAN RADAR RECONNAISSANCE SATELLITE SYSTEM Falcon 9 rocket will deliver three-satellite SARah Constellation that will serve German Ministry of Defense Hawthorne, CA – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will provide the launch services for Germany’s second-generation radar reconnaissance satellite system. The satellites, provided by OHB […]

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Orbital Sciences Passes Spacecraft Milestone

Orbital Sciences Passes Spacecraft Milestone

Orbital Press Release: ORBITAL-BUILT SATELLITES EXCEED 1,000 YEARS OF CUMULATIVE IN-ORBIT OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE — Company’s 30-Year History Includes 146 Satellites Built and Launched, With 81 Currently in Full Operations — (Dulles, VA 11 March 2013) – Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB), one of the world’s leading space technology companies, today announced that it recently achieved […]

Soyuz Lifts off with 6 Globalstar Satellites

Soyuz Lifts off with 6 Globalstar Satellites

After a 24 hour delay to allow high level winds at the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan to subside, a Soyuz 2-1a rocket blasted off into the night sky at 16:24 UTC carrying the final 6 satellites of Globalstar’s second generation, 24 bird constellation. After separation from the third stage,   the restartable Fregat upperstage will deliver the satellites to a circularized 52 degree orbit where they […]

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Proton Puts Gazprom Satellite in Wrong Orbit

Proton Puts Gazprom Satellite in Wrong Orbit

Source RIA Novosti: A Russian Proton-M rocket marked by International Launch Services failed to place a Gazprom Space Systems communications satellite into the correct orbit following a  5:13 PM launch (Moscow time)  from the Baikononur Space Center in Kazakstan on  Saturday, December 8.  According to early reports, the Yamal-402 satellite,  built by Thales Alenia and consisting of 46 KU band transponders, separated four minutes earlier […]

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