Satellite News

Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 0055 UTC on 15 November to repair and remodel the International Space Station.

NASA’s J-2X rocket engine successfully completed its critical design review last week at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama/USA.

The Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI), one of the 11 scientific instruments (payloads) carried by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, has successfully been turned on on 16 November 2008.

Sea Launch took delivery of the SICRAL 1B communications satellite last week at the Payload Processing Facility at Sea Launch Home Port in the Port of Long Beach.