Reston VA (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 - International Launch Services (ILS) announced two firm missions with the ILS Proton launches of the Intelsat 21 satellite and the Intelsat 23 satellite for Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services.
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 - Aerojet and Orbital Sciences, along with Aerojet's Russian partner, SNTK, have announced that a series of NK-33 rocket engine tests conducted in Samara, Russia were successfully completed in support of the development of Orbital's Taurus II space launch vehicle.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 - Launch Activity Is In Full Swing At French Guiana As Preparations Move Forward In Parallel For Ariane 5's First Two Missions In 2010 - Underscoring Arianespace's Ability To Support A Sustained Mission Pace With Its Workhorse Vehicle.
Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Mar 15, 2010 - The 45th Space Wing has issued Real Property Licenses to Space Florida for Space Launch Complexes 46 and 36 here to attract the nation's next generation of spacelift customers.
Beijing (XNA) Mar 15, 2010 - China will launch an unmanned space module, Tiangong-1, in the first half of 2011, and the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in the second half of the year, to carry out the nation's first-ever space docking, an expert said here Wednesday.
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2010 - Aerojet played a key role in the successful launch of United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-P (GOES-P) satellite built by Boeing for this NASA and NOAA cooperative mission. Aerojet provided reaction control thrusters for the Delta IV upper stage, as well as a bipropellant chemical propulsion engine for the GOES-P satellite.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 15, 2010 - There are no technical constraints to extending the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) until at least 2020, top international space officials said on Thursday.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2010 - How often can you say that you've seen the components of a space telescope being worked on at NASA? The answer is probably rarely, if ever. However, thanks to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., that has now changed.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 12, 2010 - A Soyuz-TMA-16 space capsule carrying two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to land in central Kazakhstan on March 18, Russian Mission Control said on Wednesday.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 12, 2010 - Satellite preparations for Arianespace's first mission of 2010 have transitioned into their final phase, with the ASTRA 3B payload making its first contact with Ariane 5 launcher hardware.
Tokyo, Japan (ESA) Mar 12, 2010 - The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on 11 March 2010, to review ISS cooperation.
Beijing (XNA) Mar 12, 2010 - The launch of China's first Mars probe Yinghuo-1, originally scheduled for October 2009 on a Russian carrier rocket, has been postponed until 2011 due to Russia's technical reasons, a Chinese space exploration official said here Wednesday.
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2010 - Rep. Bill Posey (R-Rockledge) has joined with Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-New Smyrna Beach) to introduce the Human Space Flight Capability Assurance and Enhancement Act of 2010, bipartisan legislation to minimize the human space flight gap by extending the use of the Space Shuttle, moving forward with a new domestic vehicle and speeding up the development of a heavy lift vehicle (HLV) to go beyond low earth orbit. The bill mirrors legislation introduced last week by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas.
Paris (AFP) March 11, 2010 - The consortium of agencies building the International Space Station (ISS) wants to see if the orbital outpost can operate until 2028, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.
Hawthorne CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 - SpaceX has performed our first Static Fire for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. We counted down to an T-2 seconds and aborted on Spin Start. Given that this was our first abort event on this pad, we decided to scrub for the day to get a good look at the rocket before trying again. Everything looks great at first glance.
Toulouse, France (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 - The first Arabsat 5th generation satellite today left the Astrium facilties in Toulouse and was loaded in Blagnac airport on an Antonov cargo airplane that will transport it to French Guyana in view of an April launch into geostationary orbit.
