Satellite News

TacSat-3’s lift off has been scheduled for 5 May from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia/USA.
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Lockheed Martin announced a major milestone on the U.S. Air Force’s Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) with the successful delivery of the fully-integrated payload for the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO) spacecraft in the programme constellation.
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Al Yah Satellite Communications company (Yahsat) announced that it has entered into a partnership with SES Astra to create a new company operating under the brand name YahLive that will offer Direct-to-Home (DTH) television capacity and services to more than two dozen countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South West Asian region.
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The Sea Launch team is initiating a 72-hour countdown at its equatorial launch site, in preparation for the launch of Telespazio’s SICRAL 1B communications satellite on 20 April.
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The launch of RazakSAT, Malaysia’s second remote sensing satellite, has been postponed owing to technical problems with the Falcon 1 launcher, the country’s Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry secretary-general Datuk Abdul Hanan Alang Endut said.
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NASA’s Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
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A few details regarding China’s planned Beidou (”Compass”) navigation satellite constellation have been reported by Xinhua.
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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has signed an agreement with CONAE, Argentina’s National Commission on Space Activity, for two launches aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 medium-to-heavy lift vehicle.
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