Tag: Telecom
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches its fifth Falcon 9 flight of the year
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with the TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Ariane 5 sends Thor 7 and Sicral 2 satellites into orbit
The Ariane 5 rocket blasts off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 2000 GMT (4 p.m. EDT; 5 p.m. local time). Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Blasting into space atop an Ariane 5 launcher, two communications satellites started missions Sunday to beam broadband services to ships, airplanes and offshore oil rigs…
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Clouds in the forecast for Monday’s Falcon 9 launch
SpaceX’s mission patch for the Falcon 9 launch with TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat. Credit: SpaceX Forecasters will be watching clouds and rain showers during the countdown before Monday’s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Turkmenistan’s first communications satellite. The 22-story rocket is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral during a 90-minute launch window opening at 6:14…
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Ariane 5 in position for dual-satellite launch
Rolling out for its first liftoff of the year Friday, an Ariane 5 rocket journeyed out of a launcher assembly building Thursday and rode railroad tracks to its launch pad in French Guiana with two European communications satellites. Pulled under the power of a 540-horsepower Titan tug, the 179-foot-tall rocket arrived at the ELA-3 launch…
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SpaceX puts off next Falcon 9 launch
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s next launch with a European-built communications satellite has been delayed to no earlier than March 28 to study a problem with a helium pressurization system on the Falcon 9 rocket, officials said Tuesday. The liftoff was set for…
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SES satellites could be first to launch from Texas spaceport
Story updated Feb. 26. File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 11. Credit: SpaceX Two communications satellites owned by SES are booked to fly into orbit — possibly from South Texas — on a pair of Falcon 9 rockets in 2017, giving SpaceX two payloads that could be assigned…
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SES signs up for launch with more powerful Falcon 9 engines
A Falcon 9 rocket launches Feb. 11 with NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: NASA/Tony Gray A communications payload owned by the Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES will ride the first launch of an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket in mid-2015, SES officials said Friday. The decision comes after a review of the risks of launching the…
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SES bridges the Atlantic in latest satellite purchase
Artist’s concept of the SES 16/GovSat satellite to be manufactured by Orbital ATK. Credit: Orbital ATK Boeing Satellite Systems, Airbus Defense and Space and Orbital ATK have won orders from Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES for three new communications spacecraft for launch in 2017. SES announced the deals with three satellite manufacturers Monday for spacecraft to…
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SpaceX selected for launch of Qatari satellite
File photo of a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX A communications satellite owned by the Qatari government will launch from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in late 2016, according to Qatar’s state-owned satellite company. The Es’hail 2 satellite — under construction at Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corp. — will broadcast…
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O3b Networks plans satellite fleet expansion
The first-generation O3b satellites launched four at a time aboard a Europeanized version of Russia’s Soyuz rocket. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron Fresh off the launch of its last four first-generation satellites, O3b Networks is in the early stages of selecting a builder and launch provider for a new…