Satellite News

Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Nimiq 5; Date: 17 September 2009, 1919 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. After a 9 hour 15 minute mission, the Briz M successfully released the satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.

The Demonstration Flight H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), launched by the H-IIB Test Flight Launch Vehicle on 11 September 2009 from the Tanegashima Space Center, was successfully berthed at the International Space Station (ISS).

Pakistan and China signed an agreement to develop a new satellite, PakSat-1R, Pakistan’s Economic Affairs Division (EAD) said in a press release.

GIOVE-A, the first Galileo test satellite in orbit, has been moved to a higher orbit to ensure that it does not cross the operational Galileo constellation’s orbits for more than 100 years.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and CNES President Yannick d’Escatha signed four agreements in support of U.S. and French space co-operation.