Satellite News

Rocket: Delta IV Medium+ (4,2); Payload: GOES-O (GOES-14); Date: 27 June 2009, 2251 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Following a nominal four hour, 21-minute flight, the Delta IV deployed the spacecraft.

After 18.6 years in space and defying several earlier expectations of its demise, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter Ulysses will achieve ‘end of mission’ on 30 June 2009.

The U.S. Air Force announced that the second Space Based Infrared System Highly Elliptical Orbit payload and associated ground system has entered trial period operations.

With last Friday’s issue, the number of articles in the Sat-ND archive has surpassed the 30,000-mark.