Tag: Telecom

  • Patience a key ingredient in Orbcomm’s new satellite fleet

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    Orbcomm’s 11 satellites aboard the Falcon 9 rocket are seen here before encapsulation inside the payload fairing. Credit: Orbcomm/SpaceX Nearly a decade after Orbcomm raised the money to pay for a second-generation satellite fleet to drastically expand the company’s reach, the $230 million program is finally primed for completion after Monday’s launch of a Falcon…

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    Orbcomm’s 11 satellites aboard the Falcon 9 rocket are seen here before encapsulation inside the payload fairing. Credit: Orbcomm/SpaceX Nearly a decade after Orbcomm raised the money to pay for a second-generation satellite fleet to drastically expand the company’s reach, the $230 million program is finally primed for completion after Monday’s launch of a Falcon…

  • Thales, Arianespace win repeat business with O3b

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    Artist’s concept of O3b satellites in orbit. Credit: Thales Alenia Space Armed with $460 million in fresh financing to grow its broadband communications capacity, O3b Networks has selected Thales Alenia Space to build eight new satellites and Arianespace to launch at least four of them aboard a Soyuz rocket in 2018. The contracts will allow…

  • Long March lofts communications craft for Chinese government

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    A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at 1646 GMT (11:46 a.m. EST) Wednesday with the Chinasat 1C satellite. Credit: Xinhua A Long March 3B rocket driven by four strap-on boosters blasted off Wednesday from the Xichang space base in southwestern China, successfully delivering a communications payload to orbit a half-hour later to likely begin…

  • SpaceX aims to resume Falcon 9 flights in mid-December

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    File photo of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket before launch of its first mission for Orbcomm in July 2014. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has shipped to Cape Canaveral the first Falcon 9 booster equipped with upgrades to haul heavier cargoes to orbit, aiming for a mid-December launch in the space transport company’s first mission since a June…

  • Photos: H-2A rocket launches satellite for Canadian company

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    A powerful H-2A launcher, boosted by four strap-on rocket motors and an upgraded second stage, lifted off from Japan on Tuesday with a multipurpose communications satellite for Ottawa-based Telesat. The 174-foot-tall (53-meter) rocket launched at 0650 GMT (1:50 a.m. EST) Tuesday from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, and it deployed the Telstar 12…

  • Sporting new upgrades, H-2A rocket readied for flight

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    A Japanese H-2A rocket arrived at the launch pad Monday for liftoff with the Telstar 12 Vantage communications satellite. Credit: MHI A Japanese H-2A rocket is set for liftoff Tuesday on its first fully commercial mission, carrying a communications satellite for Telesat of Canada that will bridge the Atlantic Ocean with expanded coverage for television…

  • China launches first satellite for Laos

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    Built and financed by China, a $258 million Laotian communications satellite project launched Friday aboard a Long March 3B rocket to better connect the mountainous Southeast Asia nation and surrounding regions. The LaoSat 1 spacecraft is the first satellite for Laos, an achievement Laotian state media hailed as a “landmark” for the country. The satellite…

  • Photos: Ariane 5 counting down to liftoff

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    Launch crews rolled out a nearly 180-foot-tall Ariane 5 rocket to its launch pad Monday in a final major step before liftoff with the Arabsat 6B and GSAT 15 communications satellites to broadcast television, broadband and other telecom services across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and India. Pulled by a heavy-duty Titan tug along…

  • Planning for December Falcon 9 launch, Orbcomm ships satellites

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    Orbcomm’s 11 second-generation OG2 satellites are pictured inside Sierra Nevada’s factory in Louisville, Colorado. Credit: Sierra Nevada Corp. The first shipment of Orbcomm’s 11-satellite payload for the Falcon 9 rocket’s first flight since a June launch failure has arrived at Cape Canaveral, and the rest of the spacecraft will reach the Florida spaceport in the…