Satellite News

SpaceDev, Inc. announced that it has concluded the first phase of development on its hybrid rocket powered lunar lander prototype, with a successful flight test.

An unknown object has hit NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) on 10 November, the Hampton Roads Daily Press reports.

The U.S. Air Force has exercised an option for a sixth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite and has authorised Boeing to begin construction.

The long-delayed Japanese GX rocket project has run into new trouble, the Yomiuri Shimbun reports.

Arianespace published the orbital data of the RASCOM-QAF1/Horizons-2 launch, and summed up its 2007 launch statistics.

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload:Progress M-62 (Progress P27); Date: 23 December 2007, 0712 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Progress cargo spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station.