Satellite News

NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna.

Space-Communication Ltd. (Spacecom), Israel, has signed an agreement with an undisclosed customer to provide satellite communications services to Africa via Amos 5i, the former AsiaSat 2.

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Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Kosmos 2455; Date: 20 November 2009, 1044 UTC; Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The military satellite was deployed in an initial 200 km x 905 km x 67.2 degrees orbit nine minutes after lift-off.
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Rocket: Atlas V 431; Payload: Intelsat-14 (IS-14); Date: 23 November 2009, 0655 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Successful spacecraft separation occurred nearly two hours after lift-off.
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The launch of a Proton-M/Briz-M with Eutelsat’s W7 satellite from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, was postponed for (at least) 24 hours. There are no technical issues concerning the Proton rocket or the satellite; the delay seems to have been caused by the Kazakh government.
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Thales Alenia Space has confirmed it was no longer involved in the construction of the Ekspress-AM5 and -AM6 satellites that are being built by ISS Reshetnev. TAS apparently has been replaced by Canada’s MDA.
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The Russian Ministry of Agriculture has awarded a contract to Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems for the manufacture of three Kosmos-CX satellites intended for remote sensing observations and monitoring of agricultural lands over the whole Russian territory.
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