Satellite News

Arianespace has completed the payload integration on its fourth Ariane 5 to be launched in 2009, clearing the way for this vehicle’s lift-off from the Spaceport in French Guiana on 21 August within a one-hour launch window opening at 2209 UTC. The target orbit is 250 km x 35,786 km x 2 degrees at injection.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has delivered the Nimiq 5 communications satellite built for Telesat to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where it is scheduled to launch on 18 September aboard an ILS Proton Briz M vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS).
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GOES-14, formerly GOES-O, has achieved another significant milestone with the release of the first formal Solar Image from the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI).
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