Satellite News

NASA has completed a two-day review of space shuttle Discovery’s readiness for flight and selected 25 August as the official launch date for the STS-128 mission to the International Space Station. Lift-off is scheduled for 0536 UTC from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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South Korea today aborted its first domestic launch of a rocket eight minutes before scheduled lift-off because of a technical problem.
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ESA has signed a deal with its Russian counterpart Roskosmos to co-operate on two Mars exploration projects, Interfax news agency reported.
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Rocket: Delta II 7925-9.5; Payload: GPS IIR-21(M); Date: 17 August 2009, 1035 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Following a nominal 1 hour and 8 minute flight, the rocket deployed the spacecraft, the eighth (and last) modernised NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block II R-M military navigation satellite.
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Telesat announced that its new Nimiq 5 satellite is scheduled to launch on an ILS Proton vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 18 September 2009.
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Assembly of the Ares I-X test rocket, its simulated crew module and launch abort system has been completed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

After a 9 hour 15 minute mission, a Briz M upper stage successfully released the AsiaSat 5 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. The upper stage and its payload were launched on 11 August, 1947 UTC aboard a Proton M.
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ISRO plans to launch its latest Earth observation satellite, Oceansat-2, by the middle of September, ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair was quoted as saying.
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