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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There are several reasons why people make the switch from cable to satellite. Some of those reasons have to do with cost, the others about services. There is something about satellite that appeals more than cable and that boils down to having more channels and paying a lower price than getting less channels for a higher price.

Rocket: Delta II 7925-9.5; Payload: GPS IIR-21(M); Date: 17 August 2009, 1035 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Following a nominal 1 hour and 8 minute flight, the rocket deployed the spacecraft, the eighth (and last) modernised NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block II R-M military navigation satellite.
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Telesat announced that its new Nimiq 5 satellite is scheduled to launch on an ILS Proton vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 18 September 2009.
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India and Russia have finished the design of Chandrayaan-2, India’s second unmanned lunar orbiter to be sent to the Moon in 2011-2012.
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A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
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