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FLORIDA, United States (Reuters) – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an Intelsat communications satellite from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on Wednesday evening (July 5). The rocket delivered Intelsat 35e to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), according to SpaceX. SpaceX said due to mission requirements, it would not try to land Falcon 9’s first stage after the launch. Two launches were scrubbed this week. On Monday, the […]
TEXAS, United States (Reuters) – The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft was released from the International Space Station on Monday (July 3) in preparation for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with over 4000 pounds (1814 kg) of cargo and experimental samples. Images from NASA showed a robotic arm detaching from the ISS and navigating the separation in preparation for the Dragon’s return to Earth. Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer commanded the release of the […]
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, United States (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sunday (June 25) carrying 10 communications satellites to low-Earth orbit, the company said on its website. “This is the second set of 10 satellites in a series of 75 total satellites that SpaceX will launch,” it said in a statement. The launch is for Iridium, a provider of voice and data communications. […]
CCTV — A team of Chinese scientists have realized the satellite-based distribution of entangled photon pairs over 1,200 kilometers, with photon pairs demonstrating to be still entangled after traveling long distances. This satellite-based technology has opened bright prospects for both practical quantum communications and fundamental quantum optics experiments at distances previously impossible on the ground, said Pan Jianwei, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Pan, who is also the chief scientist of the quantum […]
SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) – China’s self-developed satellite payload test system made its maiden appearance at the eighth China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC). At the 2017 CNSC which opened Tuesday in Shanghai, a satellite payload test system developed by the National University of Defense Technology was displayed. The newly released system marks a landmark progress in the country’s satellite research and development. It broke a technological bottleneck because previous devices were custom-designed only. The test system […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — SpaceX on Monday launched a communications satellite for Inmarsat, marking its first launch for the London-based mobile broadband company. The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite, built by Boeing, blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 7:21 pm (2321 GMT). “We’ve had confirmation of spacecraft separation,” said a SpaceX commentator about 30 minutes after launch, signaling that the satellite was successfully deployed to a distant, geostationary orbit. “We’ve […]
A range of video and data services will soon be available in the country after a rocket carrying the telecommunications satellite that will enable such services was launched on Thursday. The Ariane 5 rocket carrying the satellite, KOREASAT-7 owned by South Korea’s KTsat, blasted off at 6:51 pm (2151 GMT) from Europe’s space port in Kourou, Guiana. The launch had been delayed several times after the French territory in South America was hit by more than a month of […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan launched a new spy satellite on Friday, the country’s space agency said, as the region grows increasingly uneasy over North Korea’s quickening missile program. The Radar 5 unit was carried into space on Japan’s mainstay H-2A rocket from a launch site in the country’s southwest. It is meant to replace an existing satellite that is coming to the end of its mission. Japan started putting spy satellites into orbit in […]
Paris, France (AFP)– Europe is set to launch a fourth satellite next Tuesday for its ambitious Copernicus Earth monitoring project to track changing land cover and pollution, launch firm Arianespace said. Dubbed Sentinel-2B, the satellite will blast off on a Vega rocket from Europe’s space port in Kourou, French Guiana, at 0149 GMT, the company said. “The Sentinel-SB Earth observation satellite primarily focuses on monitoring land masses and coastal zones around the world,” Arianespace said […]
Reuters — A NASA science satellite circling Mars had to maneuver this week to avoid crashing into one of the planet’s two small moons, the U.S. space agency said on Thursday (March 2). The MAVEN spacecraft, which is studying Mars’ vanishing atmosphere, fired up its engine on Tuesday to boost its speed by about 1.3 feet per second (0.4 meters per second) so it could steer clear of the Martian moon Phobos, the National Aeronautics […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket lifted off successfully from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Wednesday morning carrying a military satellite. The rocket is carrying the NROL-79 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, the ULA said in a statement. The rocket lifted off in favorable conditions. The rocket launch marks the 70th Atlas 5 launch, the ULA said.
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam has started dredging work on a reef in the South China Sea, fresh satellite images appear to show, a move that could provoke Beijing which claims most of the disputed waterway. An image of the small Ladd Reef in the Spratly Islands, where Vietnam has a lighthouse, shows several vessels in a carved out embankment on the reef’s edge. Sediment can be seen leaking out into the ocean, according to […]
