Satellite News

South Korean officials said the STSAT-2 experimental satellite it attempted to put into orbit yesterday aboard a KSLV-1 launcher probably burned up in the atmosphere. The failure seems to have been caused by one half of the payload fairing remaining attached to the second stage.
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NASA has targeted the next launch attempt for space shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission to the ISS for no earlier than 0422 UTC on 28 August from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Lockheed Martin announced that the second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-2) payload and associated ground systems have been certified for missile warning operations by U.S. Strategic Command.
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Spacecraft Engineering Department and Remote Sensing Division announced it has successfully completed the System Requirements and Design Review (SRDR) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Microwave Imager/Sounder (MIS) programme.
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