Satellite News

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts are to land at Edwards Air Force Base after bad weather prevented them from returning to Florida for two days in a row.

Sea Launch has announced its next launch would be that of Intelsat 15 “later this year.”

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain signed a memorandum of understanding for co-operation in the field of space transportation.

Rocket: H-IIB; Payload: H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV); Date: 10 September 2009, 1702 UTC; Site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and, at about 15 minutes and 10 seconds after lift-off, the separation of the HTV Demonstration Flight was confirmed.
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NASA and industry engineers successfully performed an initial full-scale, full-duration test firing of the first stage motor for the Ares I rocket.
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Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew are expected to return to Earth on 10 or 11 September after the 13-day STS-128 mission.
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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Astrium announced a contract for a SpaceX Falcon 1e to launch an Earth observation satellite designed by Astrium or its subsidiary Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL).
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Preparations for the launch of Canada’s Telesat’s Nimiq 5 telecommunications satellite aboard a Proton M/Briz M launcher continue to progress.
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