NASA MOVES SATELLITE TO AVOID CHINESE WEAPON DEBRIS - Flight controllers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., had to maneuver the Terra environmental spacecraft in late June to avoid orbital debris created by the Jan. 11 test of a Chinese anti-satellite (A-Sat) weapon. More (Source: FoxNews.com - Jul 7)
CHINESE TELEVISION SATELLITE BOOSTED INTO EARTH ORBIT - China's most powerful rocket streaked into space Thursday with a communications satellite designed to broadcast television channels across Asia and the Pacific Ocean. The Chinasat 6B satellite launched aboard a Long March 3B rocket at 1208 GMT (8:08 a.m. EDT) Thursday from the Xichang space center in southwestern China. More (Source: SpaceFlightNow.com - Jul 6)
CHINA TO LAUNCH FRENCH-MADE COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE - China is preparing to launch a French-made broadcasting satellite, said sources with the National Space Administration here Wednesday, without giving an exact date for the blast-off. The satellite and the Chinese-made rocket carrier Long March 3B have been moved to the launch site at Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. More (Source: ChinaView.cn - Jul 5)
RUSSIAN ROCKET BLASTS OFF WITH GERMAN SATELLITE - A Russian rocket blasted off Monday night with a German satellite atop, Itar-Tass news agency reported. The Kosmos-3M booster, carrying the German intelligence satellite SAR-Lupe-2, launched from Plesetsk cosmodrome. More (Source: ChinaView.cn - Jul 3)
SHUTTLE ATLANTIS HEADED FOR FLORIDA - Clear weather allowed a jumbo jet carrying the space shuttle Atlantis to take off Monday for Kentucky on its way back to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said. NASA's modified 747 jet with Atlantis on top, heads back to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. More (Source: CNN.com - Jul 2)
INDOSAT TO LAUNCH NEW SATELLITE IN 2009 - Publicly listed telecommunications firm PT Indonesian Satellite Corporation Tbk (Indosat) is set to launch its second satellite in the third quarter of 2009 to replace its first one, which will be switched off in 2011. More (Source: The Jakarta Post - Jul 1)
NASA MOVES UP NEXT SHUTTLE LAUNCH - NASA has changed the launch date of its next space shuttle mission to the international space station to August 7, two days earlier than the previous target, agency officials said on Thursday. More (Source: CNN.com - Jun 28)
DELFI-C3 SATELLITE INTEGRATION FOR PLANNED AUTUMN LAUNCH - Wouter Jan Ubbels, PE4WJ, Delfi-C3's project manager of electronic systems and communications at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands reports that their satellite is being integrated and tested in preparation for launch in September or October, 2007. More (Source: The Southgate Amateur Radio Club - Jun 25)
ALPHASAT SATELLITE DEEMED CLOSER TO REALIZATION - The European Space Agency (ESA) has moved closer to implementing the first satellite based on Alphabus, the new European telecommunications platform, ESA announced. More (Source: SatelliteToday.com - Jun 23)
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