Tag: commercial-space
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Rocket Lab delays debut of new launcher to dodge bad weather
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket horizontal at Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab, a company eyeing a market to launch small satellites, said Monday that bad weather at its privately-operated launch base on New Zealand’s North Island kept a commercial Electron booster from lifting off on its maiden test…
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Budget proposal puts NASA satellite servicing mission in doubt
Artist’s concept of the Restore-L spacecraft (left) with the Landsat 7 satellite (right) for an in-orbit refueling demonstration. Credit: Space Systems/Loral NASA plans to shelve a robotic demonstration mission to refuel an aging Landsat Earth-imaging observatory and join forces with the private sector and a U.S. military research and development agency in a public-private partnership…
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Photos: Soyuz rocket climbs into space with SES 15
A Soyuz rocket took off from French Guiana on Thursday with the SES 15 communications satellite, a craft heading for an orbit more than 22,000 miles over the equator to provide airborne wifi and aeronautical navigation services over the United States. The 151-foot-tall (46-meter) rocket, topped with a Fregat upper stage, lifted off at 1154:53…
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Jeff Bezos lays out his vision for city on the moon, complete with robots
Artist’s concept shows Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk may have his heart set on building a city on Mars, but Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space vision looks closer to home. He’s gazing at the moon. “I think we should build a permanent human settlement…
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Small satellite launcher set for first orbital test flight this week
The Electron rocket at Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula on New Zealand’s North Island during a May 16 wet dress rehearsal. Credit: Rocket Lab The first test flight of Rocket Lab’s commercially-developed Electron launcher was held up by weather Sunday, but conditions could improve for a launch attempt Monday from New Zealand…
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EchoStar, SES satellites enter service after March launches from Cape Canaveral
A forward-facing rocket-mounted camera captured this view of the SES 10 satellite deploying from the Falcon 9 upper stage over Africa about 32 minutes after liftoff March 30. Credit: SpaceX Two communications satellites launched from Cape Canaveral in March aboard Falcon 9 rockets, including a broadcasting craft that lifted off on SpaceX’s first re-flown booster,…
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Photos: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket begins flight with Inmarsat satellite
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off for its sixth flight of the year Monday from launch pad 39A in Florida, lofting an Inmarsat mobile broadband communications satellite to an orbit more than 40,000 miles above Earth. The Inmarsat 5 F4 satellite is en route to a circular geostationary orbit, where it will expand coverage provided…
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Video: Soyuz blasts off from South America
A 151-foot-tall (46-meter) Soyuz launcher climbed into space from French Guiana on Thursday with the Boeing-built SES 15 communications satellite bound for an operating position over the Americas in geostationary orbit. The Soyuz ST-A rocket took off at 1154:53 GMT (7:54:53 a.m. EDT; 8:54:53 a.m. French Guiana time) from a purpose-built launch facility at the…
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Live coverage: Russian rocket launches Boeing-made satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with the SES 15 commercial communications satellite. 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 1139 GMT (7:39 a.m. EDT).
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Soyuz rocket orbits satellite for airborne navigation and connectivity
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron A commercial SES communications satellite on the way to an operating post over the Americas rode into orbit from French Guiana aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket Thursday, embarking on a mission to help airline travelers stay connected and improve air navigation over the United…