Satellite News

Rocket: Proton-M/Briz-M; Payload: Eutelsat W7; Date: 24 November 2009, 1419 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The satellite separated from the vehicle on schedule 9 hours and 12 minutes after lift-off.

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Kosmos 2455; Date: 20 November 2009, 1044 UTC; Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The military satellite was deployed in an initial 200 km x 905 km x 67.2 degrees orbit nine minutes after lift-off.
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Rocket: Atlas V 431; Payload: Intelsat-14 (IS-14); Date: 23 November 2009, 0655 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Successful spacecraft separation occurred nearly two hours after lift-off.
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The launch of a Proton-M/Briz-M with Eutelsat’s W7 satellite from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, was postponed for (at least) 24 hours. There are no technical issues concerning the Proton rocket or the satellite; the delay seems to have been caused by the Kazakh government.
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The Atlas V Intelsat-14 launch has been rescheduled.
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For more than two years, i.e. since March 2007, no delays had been announced for Russia’s new Angara family of rockets. This may have been a record in the 15+ year history of the project, but the next delay is now on the horizon.
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A panel tasked with cutting Japanese government spending has recommended scrapping the GX rocket project because of its high cost.
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