Satellite News

After a significant improvement in the weather conditions at Vandenberg Air Force Base yesterday, the launch team was able to integrate the Jason 2 satellite with the Delta II launcher.
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Boeing said it has awarded subcontracts to three small businesses under its NASA Ares I avionics contract.
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) conducted the first five-engine firing of its Falcon 9 medium to heavy lift rocket at its Texas Test Facility outside McGregor on 29 May.
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A software programming glitch discovered during final checks of last Friday’s planned Ariane 5 ECA mission is under review by an independent group of experts, and will be fully solved before the dual-payload flight is rescheduled, Arianespace said.
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Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 31 May at 2102 UTC to deliver and install a Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station. Discovery docked with the ISS today at 1803 UTC.
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The launch of NASA’s GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket has been rescheduled for 5 June. The launch window extends from 1545 to 1740 UTC and remains unchanged through 7 August.
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During final pre-launch checks for today’s Ariane 5 ECA’s mission with Skynet 5C and Turksat 3A, the result of a launcher software test was not nominal. Therefore, Arianespace has decided to stop the launch countdown.
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A new launch date has been set for GOCE. The change of date is due to precautionary measures taken after the malfunction of an upper-stage section of a Russian Proton launcher. Now confirmed not to affect GOCE’s Rokot launcher, the most advanced gravity mission to date is scheduled for lift-off on 10 September 2008.
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