Satellite News

ISRO will make another attempt to launch its GSLV…Read more

Two more launches of Russian Soyuz rockets will…Read more

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Eutelsat-25B/Es’hail 1, GSAT-7; Date: 29 August 2013, 2030 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The satellites were accurately injected into their transfer orbits approximately 27 and 34 minutes after launch, respectively.

Rocket: Delta IV Heavy; Payload: NROL-65 (USA-245); Date: 28 August 2013, 1603 UTC; Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. The rocket lifted off eleven minutes later than scheduled. The classified payload was successfully deployed into its target orbit.

The possible reason why Japan cancelled the launch of Epsilon, a new kind of solid-fuel rocket 19 seconds before the scheduled lift-off Tuesday afternoon was programming error and lax preliminary checks, Japanese media reported.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)…Read more

NASA has tested its largest 3-D printed rocket…Read more

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) set the launch time of the first Epsilon Launch Vehicle (Epsilon-1) with the Spectroscopic Planet Observatory for Recognition of Interaction of Atmosphere (SPRINT-A) onboard.