Satellite News

NASA said it was a step closer to the first flight test of the rocket that will send humans on their way to the moon as part of the agency’s Constellation Program.

Sea Launch will launch the Intelsat 17 communications satellite in late 2010, as the first of five missions on the Sea Launch system in a previously announced multiple launch services contract with Intelsat, Ltd.

The launch of Japan’s Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) “Ibuki” aboard the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 15 (H-IIA F15) has been delayed again.

Rocket: Delta IV Heavy; Payload: NROL-26 (USA 202); Date: 17 January 2009, 0247 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. United Launch Alliance said the rocket and its classified payload successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex 37 at CCAFS. No details regarding the satellite deployment were given.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said they decided to postpone the launch of the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite “Ibuki” (GOSAT) as bad weather is forecast around the day before launch.
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The launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy with a U.S. National Reconnaissance Office payload has been rescheduled for 18 January, 0033 UTC.

Mission managers have decided to once again postpone the launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy with a National Reconnaissance Office payload for two reasons.
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U.S. Air Force officials have delayed the launch of Tactical Satellite-3 until repairs to a spacecraft avionics component, critical to the system’s operational capability, are complete.
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