Satellite News

Boeing Launch Services has been awarded a contract to launch DigitalGlobe’s second WorldView Earth-imaging satellite on a Delta II launch vehicle.
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The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite, designed and built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, was successfully launched today from the U.S. Army’s Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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Inmarsat’s third I-4 satellite will not be launched this spring as previously planned.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that the U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC) has ordered three additional Minotaur space launch vehicles in support of the new Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office.
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ICO G1, launched yesterday aboard an Atlas V in 421 configuration, successfully deployed its solar arrays several hours after separation and was to begin firing its thrusters today in order to manoeuvre into geosynchronous orbit.
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Rocket: Atlas V/Centaur; Payload: ICO G1; Date: 14 April 2008, 2012 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The satellite separated from the Centaur upper stage 30 minutes, 49 seconds after lift-off as planned.
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Arianespace said it has been selected to launch the BSAT-3b satellite by Japanese operator Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT).
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Rocket: Soyuz-FG; Payload: Soyuz TMA-12; Date: 8 April 2008, 1116 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The manned transport spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station.
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