June 7th, 2016 by
The lift-off of Flight VA230 has been postponed following an anomaly that occurred prior to the Ariane 5’s roll-out to the launch zone in French Guiana.
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June 7th, 2016 by
On its fifth launch of the year, which will be the third mission in 2016 utilising an Ariane 5 launcher from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana, Arianespace will orbit two satellites: EchoStar XVIII for the operator DISH Network L.L.C.; and BRlsat for PT.Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk.
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June 7th, 2016 by
ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the technology needed to build a space-based gravitational wave observatory.
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June 7th, 2016 by
Iridium Communications Inc. announced that the Iridium Certus service will be commercially available in the second quarter of 2017.
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June 7th, 2016 by
Ten years ago the first images were returned from the CALIPSO and CloudSat atmospheric aerosol LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) and cloud-profiling radar missions following their joint launch on 28 April 2006. The satellites joined the A-Train, a coordinated group of international satellites providing simultaneous observation data used by scientists to advance knowledge of Earth-system science.
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