Satellite News

Rocket: Chang Zheng 2D; Payload: Yaogan VII; Date: 9 December 2009, 0842 UTC; Launch Site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The remote sensing satellite was successfully put in its target orbit, Xinhua reported.

Officials have delayed the launch of France’s HELIOS 2B military optical observation satellite because of a problem with the Ariane 5 GS rocket.

At Baikonur, the DirecTV 12 telecommunications spacecraft was fuelled today in preparation for a scheduled 29 December launch aboard a Proton Briz M launch vehicle.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been taken out of the precautionary “safe mode” it had been in since August.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft which is scheduled for launch in December 2012.

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