Tag: commercial-space
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Photos: Proton booster lifts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome
Rising atop a column of rocket exhaust lighting up the Kazakh steppe, a Russian Proton booster took off Thursday with a commercial communications satellite for AsiaSat. The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) Proton rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1852:16 GMT (2:52:16 p.m. EDT) Thursday, soaring into an overcast sky at the historic Central…
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Elon Musk revises Mars plan, hopes for boots on ground in 2024
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of SpaceX’s concept for a Mars outpost serviced by reusable spaceships. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX plans to begin construction of a new rocket and spacecraft next year that could lead to human landings on Mars as early as 2024, scaling up technologies currently being perfected with the…
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ILS declares mission success after Proton launch of AsiaSat 9
Credit: Roscosmos AsiaSat’s most powerful communications satellite, built by Space Systems/Loral in California to reach developing markets in Myanmar, Indonesia and other parts of the Asia-Pacific, rode a Proton rocket and Breeze M upper stage Thursday into orbit ranging more than 22,000 miles above Earth. The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) Proton rocket took off from the Baikonur…
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Live coverage: Proton lifts off with U.S.-built satellite for Asian company
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Proton rocket with the AsiaSat 9 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Live video from ILS begins at approximately 1830 GMT (2:30 p.m. EDT).
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SpaceX sets target launch dates for back-to-back flights next month
File photo inside SpaceX’s hangar at pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX engineers are readying two Falcon 9 rockets for launches Oct. 7 and Oct. 9 from Florida and California, setting up another quick turnaround to first deploy a large TV broadcasting satellite for SES and EchoStar over the…
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AsiaSat communications payload ready for Proton launch
A Russian Proton rocket rolled out to its launch pad Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the AsiaSat 9 satellite on-board. Video credit: Roscosmos A Russian Proton rocket topped with a commercial U.S.-built communications satellite for AsiaSat is standing on a launch pad in Kazakhstan for liftoff Thursday. The three-stage Proton launcher and…
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Six firm launch contracts booked with Arianespace
Artist’s illustration of the Ariane 62 rocket. Credit: ESA–David Ducros, 2016 Arianespace has received its first two confirmed launch contracts for Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket, and the company recently announced four more launch bookings to loft communications and weather satellites into orbit aboard Ariane 5 and Soyuz boosters from French Guiana. Two Ariane 6…
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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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Northrop Grumman to purchase Orbital ATK for $9.2 billion
An Orbital ATK Antares rocket readies for launch to the International Space Station in this October 2016 file photo. Credit: Orbital ATK Northrop Grumman announced Monday plans to acquire Orbital ATK, a company with a portfolio ranging from satellite manufacturing and orbital servicing to launch vehicles, missile defense and munitions, for approximately $9.2 billion, a…
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Billionaire Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space venture fires up its engines – all six of ’em
The Stratolaunch plane has three engines on each wing. (Stratolaunch Photo / Dylan Schwartz) The world’s biggest airplane hit another milestone this week with the completion of the first phase of engine testing at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port, according to Stratolaunch, the space venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Stratolaunch’s CEO, Jean…