ESA inaugurates new tracking station
January 19th, 2008 by
The new 5.5m tracking station on Santa Maria island (Azores, Portugal) was formally inaugurated into the ESTRACK network yesterday.
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Archive for January 19th, 2008
German commercial radar satellite operational
January 19th, 2008 by
The German radar satellite, TerraSAR-X, recently was declared operational by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Infoterra GmbH, the company responsible for commercial marketing of TerraSAR-X imaging. The announcement followed the successful outcome of the operational readiness review in December.
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Industrial contract for European-Japanese Mercury probe signed
January 19th, 2008 by
Representatives of ESA and of Astrium have signed the main industrial contract for the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. The spacecraft is to be launched in 2013 on board a Soyuz-Fregat 2-1B rocket provided through Arianespace.
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Europe’s ATV cleared for lift-off
January 19th, 2008 by
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne has received the green light for its first flight in February 2008.
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‘Land Launch’ of Amos 3 scheduled for March
January 19th, 2008 by
The first “Land Launch” is now set for March 2008, when a Zenit-3SLB rocket is to loft the Israeli Amos 3 communications satellite.
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