Stratolaunch announced yesterday that following a 9 month courtship, it is entering into a development arrangement with Orbital Sciences Corporation to secure the booster for the behemoth, twin boomed aircraft currently being built by Scaled Composites at Mojave. NBC News Science Editor Alan Boyle shed a little more light on the arrangement yesterday on his […]
Monday saw the 1,800th launch of the Russian Soyuz booster, a rocket updated, but also still very recognizable, as an immediate successor to the radio guided R-7 ballistic missile which was first planned in 1953. The record-setting launch, conducted from the space launch facility at Baikonur in Kazakhstan, was carried out on the Soyuz-U variety of the venerable rocket, which boosted a Russian Progress freighter to the International Space Station. The […]
Source: RiaNovosti Today’s planned commercial launch of a Soyuz 2-1a rocket out of Baikonur has been delayed for 24 hours to 11:02 am (U.S. EST) February 6th, due to high upper level winds. The launch which is being conducted by the Starsem/Arianespace marketing alliance, will boost the final 6 satellites for the Globalstar-2 constellation into a 52 degree orbit. […]
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