Satellite News

The Swedish Space Corporation has signed a contract with the Russian space company Kosmotras regarding launch of the Prisma satellites.
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NASA has awarded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, a NASA Launch Services contract for the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles.
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Spacecom, the operator of the Amos satellite fleet, announced that its newest communications satellite, Amos-3, is scheduled to launch on 24 April, 0500 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It will be the first mission under Sea Launch’s “Land Launch” programme.
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India plans to launch its Cartosat-2A remote sensing satellite, plus several piggyback payloads, on 28 April aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from its spaceport of Sriharikota.
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The Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft carrying two International Space Station crew members and a South Korean astronaut landed safely in Kazakhstan but came down nearly 500 kilometers off-course.
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Arianespace has published the results of the latest Ariane 5 ECA launch.
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The Proto Flight Test on the antenna of Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite was recently performed at the Tsukuba Space Center.
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Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Star One C2, Vinasat 1; Date: 18 April 2008, 2217 UTC; Site: Kourou, French Guiana. The mission was completed successfully without a hitch 31 minutes after lift-off.
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