Tag: Telecom
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Military communications craft likely aboard Chinese launch
A Long March 3B rocket carrying the Chinasat 2C communications satellite lifts off from the Xichang space center in southwest China’s Sichuan province Tuesday. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese Long March 3B rocket lifted off Tuesday from the country’s Xichang space base, heading into orbit with a secretive payload believed by Western observers to be a…
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ULA’s Atlas 5 wins contract to launch NASA data relay satellite
File photo of an Atlas 5 launch with the TDRS L satellite in 2014. Credit: ULA The last of NASA’s current-generation tracking and data relay satellites designed to link mission control with the International Space Station has been assigned for launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in October 2017, officials announced Friday.…
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Imagery from Friday’s fiery Proton rocket launch
Turkey’s newest communications satellite soared into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, and these spectacular images show the middle-of-the-night liftoff of the spacecraft’s Russian Proton rocket booster before it disappeared into low clouds. The 191-foot-tall rocket launched at 2040:11 GMT (4:40:11 p.m. EDT) Friday, lifting the 5.4-ton Turksat 4B satellite into orbit before deploying…
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Live coverage: Proton rocket launches with Turksat 4B
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Proton rocket with the Turksat 4B communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Satellite launched to beam TV and Internet to the Asia-Pacific
A Long March 3B rocket launched with the Apstar 9 telecom satellite at 1616 GMT (12:16 p.m. EDT) Friday. Credit: Chinanews.com A commercial Chinese communications satellite launched Friday aboard a Long March 3B rocket on a mission to broadcast television to consumers across the Asia-Pacific and connect passengers on ships and airplanes with the Internet.…
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Turkish telecommunications satellite lifts off from Baikonur
Updated after spacecraft separation. A Russian Proton rocket boosted a Turkish telecommunications satellite into space Friday after a blazing liftoff from Kazakhstan, and a Breeze M upper stage injected the 5.4-ton broadcasting craft into an orbit ranging more than 20,000 miles above Earth nine hours later. The Turksat 4B satellite — encapsulated in the nose…
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Lockheed Martin targets up to four commercial Atlas 5s per year
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket launch with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter in November 2013. Credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Rick Wetherington Lockheed Martin’s launch services team hopes to lure up to four commercial customers per year to fly on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 booster as a stream of U.S. government missions is forecast…
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Proton rolled out for launch of Turkish satellite
A Proton rocket with the Turksat 4B communications satellite reached its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome after a rail car rollout Tuesday. Credit: Roscosmos Russian ground crews moved a Proton rocket to its launch pad in Kazakhstan on Tuesday for liftoff with a Japanese-built broadcasting platform for Turkey’s national telecom satellite operator Friday. The…
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Photos: Ariane 5 on the eve of launch
A colorful sunset Tuesday created a dramatic backdrop to Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket, poised on its launch pad at the edge of the Amazon jungle for its 82nd mission. Flying for the fifth time this year, the expendable 18-story rocket will haul up the Sky Muster and Arsat 2 communications satellites for Australia and Argentina.…
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First static fire completed on upgraded Falcon 9
SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9 booster powered up to full throttle in a brief ignition at the company’s Central Texas test site this week as engineers prepare for the rocket’s return to flight as soon as mid-November with a European communications satellite. The November launch from Cape Canaveral, which will haul up the SES 9 television…