No Rest For Sea Launch After the failing of the Zenit 3SL rocket, which resulted in a Boeing-built satellite plunging into the Pacific Ocean, Boeing has filed suit against its Sea Launch partner. Boeing has postulated that its partners had failed to pay more than $356 million owed after the joint venture went into bankruptcy in 2009. The lawsuit, filed [...]
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News Shorts: New Problem for Sea Launch, Bigelow Reveals Pricing for Space Station, Satellite To Be Stored During Merger
Communication Satellites, Delayed by Breeze-M Failure, Now Deployed
On Friday November 2, a Proton rocket with Breeze-M upper stage launched from Baikonour Cosmodrome carrying two communication satellites. Proton and Breeze-M contractor Khrunichev declared the launch a success. Satellite builder Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Co. said all mechanisms have now deployed properly. The Breeze-M, which has had a somewhat troubled history over the past couple years, fired four times to [...]
Space Data Association, NASA Agreement to Forward Satellite Safety
The Space Data Association released the following statement on August 8, 2012: The Space Data Association (SDA), established by commercial satellite operators to improve the safety and efficiency of space operations, today announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has signed an agreement with the SDA to use the SDA’s services. NASA is a United States government agency that is [...]
Russian Satellite Launch Failure Leads to Proton Launch Suspension
With the world’s attention focused on the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory on August 6th, little attention was given to the launch of a Proton-M rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The two satellites, Telkom-3 and Ekspress-MD2, were subsequently lost when they failed to reach transfer orbits due to a burn failure of the Breeze-M upper [...]
First Payload Ready for Next Batch of Galileo Satellites
Source: ESA. The next Galileo navigation payload has been completed and is on its way to meet the satellite platform that will host it in orbit. The first of 14 Galileo ‘Full Operational Capability’ (FOC) navigation payloads has been shipped from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd in the UK to prime contractor OHB System AG in Bremen Germany. The payload – the [...]
Soviet Weather Satellite Reenters Over Antarctica
The Meteor 1-1 weather satellite, first of its kind for the the Soviet Union, reentered over the Queen Maud Land region of Antarctica on Tuesday 27 after more than four decades in orbit. According to Col. Alexey Zolotukhin, Space Forces spokesman, “fragments of the Meteor 1-1 satellite entered the Earth’s atmosphere at 02:17 a.m. Moscow time on Tuesday [22:17 GMT Monday].” The Meteor [...]
Infographic: North Korea’s Unha-3 Rocket
Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration North Korea has announced plans to launch a new long-range rocket, which it says will carry the country’s first Earth-orbiting satellite. The Unha-3 rocket launch is slated for mid-April to mark the 100th birthday of North Korea’s founder Kim il-Sung, who founded the communist state in 1948, but the [...]
Meteor 1-1, Last Views of a Historic Spacecraft
Meteor 1-1, the very first version of the Meteor satellite network, is performing its final orbits after having spent more then 4 decades in Earth orbit. The Meteor satellite series was developed in the Soviet Union during the sixties. It was preceded by Kosmos-44 – an experimental weather satellite launched on August 28, 1964 – which transmitted TV images of cloud cover. On [...]
Sophisticated Rescue Saves AEHF-1 Satellite
Fourteen months after human error stranded US military Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite (AEHF-1) in the wrong orbit and at risk of exploding, the satellite was finally placed in its correct orbit in October 2011. A successful test completed on February 29 prepared the AEHF-1 for operations, just two months before the second AEHF satellite is scheduled to launch. “This [...]
Satellite Spots Syrian Violence from Space
Satellite images reveal the ongoing violence taking place in Syria according to the US State Department. In a Facebook posting on February 10, the State Department shared images that show artillery batteries, armored vehicles, fire, and evidence of shelling in several Syrian cities, include Homs, considered to be the center of anti-government resistance. “Satellite photos have captured both the carnage and those [...]
