Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Mini-Research Module 2 (”Poisk”); Date: 10 November 2009, 1422 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The spacecraft separated from the booster rocket about nine minutes after the launch and began an autonomous flight.
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International Launch Services (ILS) and Sirius XM Radio announced a contract for the launch of the XM-5 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is scheduled for launch in 2010. This is the tenth firm award announced by ILS this year.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, on behalf of Lockheed Martin Space Launch Services, will launch the commercial Intelsat-14 satellite from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 14 November.
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Iran’s satellite launch plans remain confusing. Over the past weeks, Iranian media tried to prepare the public for the immanent launch of the country’s long-delayed Mesbah satellite aboard an indigenous rocket. Now a completely different story has been told by the semi-official Mehr news agency.
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The Planetary Society announced LightSail, a plan to sail a spacecraft on sunlight alone by the end of 2010, which will be made possible by a US$1 million anonymous donation.
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