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Rocket: Delta II 7920-10; Payload: National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP), six cubesats under the ELaNa III programme; Date: 28 October 2011, 0948 UTC; Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. NPP successfully separated from the Delta II 58 minutes after launch, and the first signal was acquired by the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.Other Posts:NASA awards two Small Explorers development contractsLockheed to deliver two Japanese satellitesNFL’s Sunday Ticket on Satellite TV – Be Ready For Kick-Off Wherever You AreSSTL earns ESA award for its role in GalileoPace Appoints New ExecutiveDish TV Receivers – All That You Need to Know About ThemLaw firm calls SpaceDev sale unfair, flawedWhat’s behind the sale of Lockheed’s ILS stake?

The Flight Readiness Review (FFR) for the Vega launcher was held in Frascati, Italy on 13 and 14 October. Based on this review, the Director-General of the European Space Agency (ESA) decided to start the Vega qualification launch campaign, with Arianespace’s operating staff providing their support for this campaign.Other Posts:Russia Orbits Military SatelliteIs There Really a Difference Between Cable and Satellite TV?Orbcomm’s subscriber base grew 56 percent last yearEchoStar to provide Ku-band capacity to NPSNRL set to launch experimental TacSat-4 spacecraftLoss of both solar arrays knocked out NigComSat 1Three ESA Earth science missions move to next phaseSES, GE Sign Buyback Deal

The first lightweight Vega was delivered to the Spaceport today, with this latest member of Arianespace’s expanded launcher family arriving only days after the service entry of its other new vehicle – the medium-lift Soyuz.Other Posts:Laugh Out Loud With “Party Down” on Satellite TVSouth African satellite to travel to Russia next weekDeciding Between Cable and Satellite Internet – A GuideFirst MUOS propulsion subsystem deliveredAlcatel-Lucent transfers satellite shareholdings to ThalesDARPA concludes review of Falcon HTV-2 flight anomalyCME takes transponder at 31.5 degrees EastTsSKB launch plans 2012/13

China in November plans to launch its first spacecraft capable of docking with a module it put into orbit last month.Other Posts:The Real Deal on Satellite TV Versus CableEMS Technologies, Inc. results Q3 2008Delayed Indian weather satellites now expected to launch 2008Thales Alenia Space to provide Amos 4 ground mission segmentLatest GLONASS satellite commences operationsNDS, SES Americom Combine To Offer New NDS Synamedia Metro IPTV Middleware To U.S. TelcosAGS’ Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload passes CDRDigital TV – Its All About Technology

Russia is planning to launch four GLONASS…Read more

Rocket: Soyuz ST-B/Fregat-MT; Payload: two Galileo IOV satellites; Date: 21 October 2011, 1030 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. All of the Soyuz stages performed as planned, and the Fregat-MT upper stage released the Galileo satellites into their target orbit 3 hours 49 minutes after lift-off.
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International Launch Services (ILS) successfully…Read more

Following an anomaly detected during fuelling of…Read more