Inmarsat confirmed that the satellite was healthy and had been placed in the correct super-synchronous transfer orbit 15 hours and 31 minutes after the launch from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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NASA Awards Contract for Construction of New Mission Launch Command Center at Wallops Flight Facility
Artist’s concept of the new Mission Launch Command Center to be constructed at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Credits: NASA NASA has awarded a contract to Harkins Contracting […]
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Market Conditions, Regulatory Issues Crimp AsiaSat Sales
AsiaSat blamed market conditions and slow licensing approvals for two new satellites for an 8 percent sales drop for the six months ending June 30.
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U.S. Air Force Eyes Blast Detection Satellite
The U.S. Air Force hopes to build an experimental satellite to detect nuclear explosions and monitor the space environment from geosynchronous orbit.
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5 Space Leaders Making a Difference
Making a difference can be measured in any number of ways: triumph, budget, policy, inspiration, influence or vision. All of the above are represented in this year’s brief compilation of difference makers.
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A Lonely Mountain on Ceres
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft spotted this tall, conical mountain on Ceres from a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The mountain, located in the southern hemisphere, stands 4 miles (6 kilometers) […]
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U.S. Army Shelves One Small Rocket Program, Pursues Another
The U.S. Army’s efforts to field a rocket for launching small, low-orbiting satellites on short notice continue to come up empty.
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NASA to Test Emergency Locator Transmitters by Crashing Airplane
Using a Cessna 172 dropped from a height of 100 feet, NASA’s Search and Rescue Mission Office will simulate a severe but survivable plane accident Wednesday, Aug. 26 to test […]
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NanoRacks External Platform, CubeSats, Launched to ISS on Japanese HTV-5
The NanoRacks External Payload Platform (NREP), manufactured by Airbus DS, and 16 customer CubeSats, were successfully launched to the International Space Station on Wednesday, August 19 via the fifth H-II […]
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NASA Begins to Build Satellite Mission to Improve Hurricane Forecasting
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina formed in the Atlantic, construction of NASA’s next-generation hurricane-observing satellite mission now is underway in Texas. NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, a […]
