December 9th, 2013 by
After launch aboard a Chang Zheng 4B, the Chinese-Brazilian CBERS-3 satellite ended up in a wrong orbit and was declared lost. It has likely already re-entered Earth’s atmosphere.
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December 9th, 2013 by
Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Inmarsat-5 F1; Date: 8 December 2013, 1212 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The rocket successfully placed its payload into a super-synchronous (geo-stationary) transfer orbit (SSTO).
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December 9th, 2013 by
Kacific Broadband Satellites announced plans to launch a Ka Band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) to provide enhanced broadband to 40 million people in the Pacific including the Pacific islands, New Zealand, eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
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December 9th, 2013 by
SSL announced that the ABS-2 satellite, designed and built for ABS, has arrived at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where it will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle by Arianespace.
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December 9th, 2013 by
NASA’s newest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) arrived at KennedySpace Center on 6 December. After being unloaded from a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft, it was unpacked and inspected to ensure it sustained no damage on its flight from the Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems satellite factory in El Segundo.
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December 9th, 2013 by
Following 27 months of successful operation, during which all mission objectives were met, the Space and Missile Systems Center decommissioned the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP), on 6 December.
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