ORBITAL SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES COMPANY-BUILT IBEX SATELLITE ABOARD PEGASUS ROCKET FOR NASA - Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that its Pegasus® rocket successfully launched the company-built Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) into its intended highly elliptical orbit. Early results indicate that the satellite is operating as expected at this stage of its mission. More (Source: Orbital - Oct 20)
ORBITAL SET TO LAUNCH COMPANY-BUILT IBEX SCIENTIFIC SPACECRAFT FOR NASA ABOARD PEGASUS ROCKET - Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it is in final preparations to launch the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite that the company designed, manufactured and tested at its Dulles, VA production facilities. The targeted launch date is Sunday, October 19, which is subject to final pre-launch preparations and testing activities at the launch site, as well as acceptable weather conditions at the time of the More (Source: Orbital - Oct 19)
NASA SATELLITE TO SCAN SOLAR SYSTEM'S OUTER LIMITS - NASA is preparing to launch a satellite that will study in unprecedented detail the distant regions where the outermost reaches of our solar system collide with the cold expanse of interstellar space. The U.S. space agency said on Friday that the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, satellite is scheduled to be launched into high-Earth orbit on Sunday for its two-year mission from a site at Kwajalein Atoll in the south Pacific. More (Source: Reuters UK - Oct 18)
CHINA TO DELIVER TELECOM SATELLITE TO PAKISTAN - China will launch a telecommunication satellite, dubbed PakSat-1R, for Pakistan in 2011. The satellite's chief contractor -- China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) -- said on Thursday that a Long March 3B rocket will be used to put the satellite into orbit. It will launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern Sichuan Province. The company said ground control facilities for the satellite will be delivered to the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission after it enters orbit. More (Source: Xinhua - Oct 17)
STUDENTS' TINY SATELLITE PROJECT SET TO TAKE OFF - A tiny satellite made by students of Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology's Arakawa Campus in Arakawa Ward will be loaded onto the H-2A rocket scheduled to be launched in January from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. Residents, companies and shops in Arakawa Ward have donated about 2 million yen via a local branch of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry to help fund the students' trip to the space center to witness the rocket's launch. The students currently are busy putting the final touches to their satellite. "We'll do everything we can to make the project a success for the locals who supported us," one student said. More (Source: The Daily Yomiuri - Oct 17)
SOYUZ AND CREW POISED FOR BLASTOFF TO SPACE STATION - Engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan are making final preparations for the planned Sunday launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying a space tourist and two long-duration crew members to the international space station. Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke, flight engineer Yury Lonchakov and Richard Garriott, a computer game designer and son of former shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott, are scheduled for liftoff at 3:01:29 a.m. EDT Sunday from the same pad used by Yuri Gagarin. More (Source: SpaceFlightNow - Oct 12)
GOOGLE EARTH'S NEW SATELLITE SENDS ITS FIRST IMAGE - Google Earth's new satellite, GeoEye-1, has provided a high resolution picture of Pennsylvania-based Kutztown University campus, which als o happens to be its first picture. The satellite took the picture on Tuesday when it was in a 423-mile-high orbit over the East Coast of the U.S. More (Source: Economic Times - Oct 11)
ORBITAL COMPLETES WORK ON NSS-9 COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE - Orbital Sciences Corporation has completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite, the company announced today. Orbital's engineering team completed all pre-shipment procedures late last week for the NSS-9 satellite, which will be stored at the company's Dulles, VA facilities until the company is notified of the launch date. More (Source: Orbital - Oct 11)
ACCOMPANYING SATELLITE BEGINS ORBITING SHENZHOU-7 SPACESHIP ON SUNDAY - hinese scientists on Sunday successfully directed the accompanying satellite BX-1 to begin circling the Shenzhou-7 spaceship, on an elliptical track of 4 kilometers multiplying 8 kilometers. It is the first time that China has succeeded in maneuvering this kind of space orbiting, official sources say. The accompanying satellite began orbiting the orbital capsule of the Shenzhou-7 at 18:14 pm, under the close monitoring and precise control of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center. More (Source: Xinhua - Oct 6)
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