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  • With Russian launch grounded, Iridium flips order of satellite deployments

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    Artist’s concept of an Iridium Next satellite. Credit: Iridium Stymied by Russian government dithering that has indefinitely grounded a test launch on a modified Soviet-era missile, Iridium officials say that SpaceX agreed to move forward to July the first of seven Falcon 9 launches from California with the company’s next-generation mobile communications satellites. Iridium originally…

  • Radio bug to keep new Iridium satellites grounded until April

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    Artist’s concept of an Iridium Next satellite. Credit: Thales Alenia Space The first launch for Iridium’s next-generation mobile communications fleet has been pushed back four months — from December until April — to resolve a technical problem inside the spacecraft’s Ka-band communications payload. The announcement Oct. 29 means Iridium will miss a long-targeted timetable to…

  • South Korean satellite launched by Dnepr rocket

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    A stockpiled Soviet-era ballistic missile shot out of an underground silo on a remote Russian military base Wednesday and powered into orbit with a South Korean Earth observation satellite. South Korea’s Kompsat 3A imaging satellite rode the 111-foot-tall Dnepr launcher on a 15-minute journey into space after liftoff at 2208:46 GMT (6:08:46 p.m. EDT) from…

  • Customers assured of Dnepr rocket’s near-term availability

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    File photo of a Dnepr rocket launch. Credit: ESA/S. Corvaja Flights of the Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr rocket are expected to continue this year despite proclamations the satellite launcher program is suspended, officials said this week. The light-class Dnepr rocket, which has found a niche in launching flocks of small satellites, is derived from the R-36M missile…