Satellite News

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 2343 UTC on 15 March to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new crew member to the International Space Station.

This afternoon, European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite was supposed to be lofted into orbit by a Russian Rokot vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia.

NASA has selected United Launch Services for the launch of two Science Mission Directorate and two Space Operations Mission Directorate payloads under the NASA Launch Services contract.

SES Astra has been selected by the European Commission (EC) to provide services to the European navigation service EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service). EGNOS is managed by the EC on behalf of the European Union (EU).

TerreStar Corporation and its majority-owned subsidiary TerreStar Networks Inc. provided an update on progress towards launching its 2 GHz mobile services satellite, TerreStar- 1.