SOUTH KOREA 'TO LAUNCH SATELLITE' - South Korea plans to put a satellite into orbit next year from its own space centre, an official has said. It will be the first time the country launches a rocket into space from its territory. Since 1992, South Korea has launched 11 satellites, mostly for space and ocean observation and communication. More (Source: The Press Association - Sep 15)
SPY SATELLITE BUILT IN COLO. SET TO LIFT OFF - A Colorado-built satellite is poised to usher in a new breed of commercial spy satellites that can snap sharper photos of objects hundreds of miles below on Earth. DigitalGlobe Inc.'s WorldView-1 satellite is sitting atop a Boeing Delta II rocket at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Launch is scheduled for Tuesday. More (Source: Rocky Mountain News - Sep 15)
CHAVEZ SIGNALS SATELLITE PLANS - enezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his nation plans to launch "the Simon Bolivar satellite" now being built in China as part of plans to develop an integrated ground- and space-based air defense — presumably against the United States. More (Source: Washington Times - Sep 13)
INSAT-4CR PLACED IN NEAR GEO-SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT - India's newest communications satellite INSAT-4CR has been successfully placed in near geosynchronous orbit, the space agency said today. This was done during the fifth and final orbit-raising operation conducted from the Master Control Facility in Hassan yesterday, said the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). More (Source: Hindu - Sep 9)
RRSAT EXTENDS ITS GLOBAL REACH ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS WITH INTELSAT - Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services, announced that RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ:RRST), a global provider of end-to-end transmission and production services for broadcasters, will use the Intelsat global network to expand RRSat’s programming transmissions services seamlessly across three continents. RRSat contracted for capacity on Intelsat’s Galaxy 23 and Intelsat 10 satellites for content broadcasting throughout Africa, Asia and North America. More (Source: Business Wire - Sep 6)
FIRST MANOEUVRE TO RAISE SATELLITE’S ORBIT - The first manoeuvre to raise the orbit of INSAT-4C R was performed on Monday by firing the liquid apogee motor (LAM) on board the satellite for 27 minutes from 8.17 a.m. The command for firing the LAM was given from the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka. More (Source: Hindu - Sep 4)
INDIA'S LARGE SATELLITE LAUNCHER RETURNS TO FLIGHT - It was a day of redemption for India's space program Sunday, when the nation's most powerful rocket returned to the skies for the first time since a booster engine failure doomed a launch last year. The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, making its fifth flight since debuting in 2001, blasted away from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 2)
GSLV TO BE LAUNCHED TODAY - The 27-hour countdown for the launch of India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-F04, began at 1.21 p.m. on Saturday and is progressing smoothly for the vehicle’s lift-off at 4.21 p.m. on Sunday (September 2) from the spaceport at Sriharikota. More (Source: Hindu - Sep 2)
NOAA DEACTIVATES POLAR ORBITING SATELLITE - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officially shut down the nation's longest serving polar-orbiting satellite, NOAA-12 on Aug. 10. While in operation, NOAA-12 logged 16 years of service and 84,402 Earth orbits, capturing critical environmental data from space. More (Source: DirectionsMag.com - Aug 29)
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