Tag: Airbus Defense and Space
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Live coverage: SpaceX delivers joint SES/EchoStar satellite to orbit
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with the SES 11/EchoStar 105 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
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SpaceX delays Falcon 9 launch of TV broadcast satellite
Story updated at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) with SpaceX statement. File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A before a launch earlier this year. Credit: SpaceX Liftoff of a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with a European-built television broadcast satellite has been pushed back from Saturday until at…
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Previously-flown Falcon 9 booster test-fired for weekend launch
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is test-fired Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX test-fired a reused Falcon 9 booster Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, checking the rocket’s readiness for a planned liftoff Saturday with an Airbus-built commercial communications satellite. The two-stage rocket, featuring a previously-flown first stage booster,…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket test-fired in Florida
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch the SES 11/EchoStar 105 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
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GRACE satellites to end research mission in November, before replacements launch
Artist’s concept of the GRACE satellites in orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Two U.S.-German satellites launched more than 15 years ago to measure Earth’s changing gravity field will stop collecting data in November, a few months before a pair of replacement craft will launch to resume gravity measurements, NASA officials said. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment,…
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Japan’s MHI wins deal to launch satellite for Inmarsat
The Inmarsat 6 F1 satellite will launch in 2020 on an H-2A rocket fitted with four solid rocket boosters. This photo shows the H-2A “204” launcher shortly after takeoff in November 2015. Credit: MHI Inmarsat has selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to launch the first of two planned sixth-generation communications satellites on an H-2A rocket in…
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SES agrees to launch another satellite on previously-flown Falcon 9 booster
A Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage booster lands at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 19 following a launch from nearby Kennedy Space Center with a space station cargo ship. Credit: SpaceX Six months after sending one of its communications satellites to orbit on the first re-flight of a SpaceX rocket, SES intends to…
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BepiColombo Mercury mission tested for journey into ‘pizza oven’
A view of the BepiColombo spacecraft stacked in launch configuration at the European Space Agency’s ESTEC test center in the Netherlands. The sunshield cover for Japan’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter is pictured at lower right. Credit: Airbus Defense and Space Three spacecraft built in Europe and Japan have completed their final joint tests to ensure they…
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Launch timeline for Ariane 5’s flight with ViaSat 2 and Eutelsat 172B
An Ariane 5 rocket will fire into the sky from French Guiana Thursday evening and deliver a record heavyweight payload to orbit less than an hour later. The nearly 180-foot-tall (55-meter) launcher will blast off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 2345 GMT (7:45 p.m. EDT; 8:45 p.m. French Guiana time) on its third flight of…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 rocket launches on record-breaking mission
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the ViaSat 2 and Eutelsat 172B communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video stream begins at approximately 2330 GMT (7:30 p.m. EDT).