Tag: Telecom
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Proton rocket takes off with Express AM8 communications bird
Updated after spacecraft separation. A Proton rocket lifted off at 1900 GMT (3 p.m. EDT) with the Express AM8 communications satellite. Credit: TsENKI/Roscosmos A Proton rocket fired away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, kicking off a nearly seven-hour flight that concluded with the high-altitude delivery of a new Russian communications satellite into…
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Proton rocket takes off with Express AM8 communications bird
Updated after spacecraft separation. A Proton rocket lifted off at 1900 GMT (3 p.m. EDT) with the Express AM8 communications satellite. Credit: TsENKI/Roscosmos A Proton rocket fired away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, kicking off a nearly seven-hour flight that concluded with the high-altitude delivery of a new Russian communications satellite into…
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Live coverage: Proton blasts off on return-to-flight mission
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Proton rocket and the Inmarsat 5 F3 mobile communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Countdown begins for launch of Indian military satellite
India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle rolls out to the Second Launch Pad at its launch base on Sriharikota Island on India’s east coast. A government-owned communications satellite heading for geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above Earth is set for launch Thursday to on a nine-year mission to to support the Indian military. The 4,667-pound GSAT 6…
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OneWeb launch deal called largest commercial rocket buy in history
File photo of a Soyuz launch from French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Backed by a fresh capital infusion and regulatory rights to a valued slice of satellite communications spectrum, the space-based Internet company OneWeb has contracted with Arianespace and Virgin Galactic to deploy hundreds of refrigerator-sized spacecraft around…
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OneWeb selects Airbus to build 900 Internet satellites
Artist’s concept of a OneWeb satellite. Credit: OneWeb Airbus Defense and Space and OneWeb, a startup backed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and wireless tech giant Qualcomm, announced Monday plans to set up a joint venture for the construction of 900 Internet broadcasting satellites for launches beginning in 2018. OneWeb’s selection of Airbus comes after…
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Photos: Ariane 5 rolled out to jungle launch pad
Technicians transferred an Ariane 5 rocket loaded with two DirecTV broadcasting satellites to a launch pad in French Guiana on Tuesday, one day before the European launcher is set for liftoff. The DirecTV 15 and Sky Mexico 1 satellites are fastened to the top of the Ariane 5, which is scheduled to fire its Vulcan…
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Mexican satellite launch grounded for engineering review
File photo of a Proton rocket on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan before a previous mission. Credit: Khrunichev The launch of a Boeing-built Mexican communications satellite on a Proton rocket has been postponed after engineers discovered an anomaly on a similar spacecraft. The Proton rocket was supposed to blast off Tuesday…
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Falcon 9 rocket powers into space with satellite for Turkmenistan
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:03 p.m. EDT (2303 GMT) after a 49-minute weather delay. Credit: SpaceX A communications satellite for Turkmenistan soared into orbit Monday, climbing through gloomy skies over Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to give the Central Asian nation its first foothold in space. After waiting 49…
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Turkmenistan’s first satellite braced for liftoff
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket with Turkmenistan’s first satellite rolls out to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Sunday. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX ground crews transferred a Falcon 9 rocket to its seaside launch mount at Cape Canaveral on Sunday evening in preparation for liftoff Monday with Turkmenistan’s first satellite. Liftoff is set for 6:14 p.m. EDT…