Satellite News

Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Intelsat 16; Date: 12 February 2010, 0039 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. After a 9 hour 34 minute mission, the Briz M successfully released Intelsat 16 satellite into a near geostationary orbit.
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Arianespace has been chosen to launch the French-Italian Athena-Fidus dual use satellite, within the scope of a contract signed by Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio and the French and Italian space agencies, CNES and ASI.
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The first launch of a Soyuz from French Guiana has been delayed while engineers test a service tower, Interfax news agency reported.
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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne said it has completed the initial step in certifying the RS-68A rocket engine by successfully hot-fire testing the first certification engine.
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Rocket: Atlas V; Payload: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO); Date: 11 February 2010, 1523 UTC; Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The SDO mission was successfully launched aboard an Atlas V 401 configuration and it used a single common core booster powered by the RD-180 engine.
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International Launch Services (ILS) and SES announced the ILS Proton launch of the SES-3 satellite with the Kazsat-2 telecommunications satellite in 2011.
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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announced that all flight hardware for the debut launch of the Falcon 9 vehicle has arrived at the SpaceX launch site, Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K. Radhakrishnan has said the inaugural launch of a GSLV with indigenous cryogenic upper stage is now planned in April.
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