Satellite News

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in autumn 2011.

NASA announced that space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope is targeted to launch on 12 May 2009.

The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) said it has upgraded ground satellite control and monitoring system to support the new Ekspress-AM44 and Ekspress-MD1 telecommunications satellites.

Russia will launch two Ekspress telecoms satellites on 11 February 2009, the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) said.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on a small satellite launcher with a payload capacity of 500 kg into low-Earth orbit, domain-b reported.

At the Naro Space Center, South Korea, qualification testing has been successfully completed on the ground technological equipment for pre-flight assembly and test procedures of the launch complex for South Korea’s KSLV I light-weight launch vehicle.

Rocket: Molniya-M; Payload: Kosmos 2446; Date: 2 December 2008, 0500 UTC; Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The classified military spacecraft likely is an early warning satellite.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announced the addition of two DragonLab missions to its manifest, as a result of demand from a successful workshop held at SpaceX headquarters on 6 November to introduce the new DragonLab product.