Satellite News

Eutelsat W3D has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome to begin preparations for its launch aboard a Proton Briz M launch vehicle.

ESA’s space freighter ATV Albert Einstein will be the heaviest spacecraft ever launched into space by an Ariane rocket when it lifts off to the International Space Station on 5 June.

The Kazakh space agency said plans to launch its first medium-resolution remote sensing satellite in the fourth quarter of 2013 from Russia’s Yasny Cosmodrome.

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On 6 April, Orbital Sciences Corporation rolled out the first fully integrated Antares rocket from its assembly building at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) in eastern Virginia in preparation for its inaugural flight that is scheduled for 17 April at approximately 2100 UTC.

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Boeing has successfully completed a preliminary design review (PDR) of the component that would connect the company’s new crew capsule to its rocket.

NASA’s Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from stars.

India plans to launch its next generation GSLV rocket within a year, ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan said.