Satellite News

China will launch the Yaogan IX remote-sensing satellite in the coming days from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, an official at the centre was quoted as saying.

Preparations continue on schedule at Baikonur for the launch of the Proton Briz M carrier rocket with a U.S. telecommunications satellite, the Space Systems/Loral-built EchoStar-14.

The Indian Space Research Organisation said it successfully conducted the flight testing of its new generation high performance sounding rocket on 3 March 2010 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), SHAR.

Mars Express flew by Phobos last night at an altitude of just 67 km, the closest any manmade object has ever approached the Mars moon.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), completing its fourth year at the Red Planet next week, has just passed a data-volume milestone unimaginable a generation ago and still difficult to fathom: 100 terabits.

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