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 Beijing, China (RIA Novosti) Sep 22, 2009 
China will assist Pakistan in building a new communications satellite, Chinese media reported Saturday from Islamabad. An agreement under which China will grant a $200 million loan to Pakistan for satellite construction was signed in Islamabad on Friday. The new PAKSAT-1R is to replace PAKSAT-1, to last until 2011. PAKSAT-1R could be orbited in two or three years' time. It will ... read more 
Hong Kong (SPX) Sep 22, 2009The brand new AsiaSat 5 communications satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) began commercial service on the 17th September, at the orbital location of 100.5 degrees East with enhanced power, coverage and connectivity, for advanced satellite broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband services across Asia Pacific. Following its launch on the 12th ... more
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2009This image, from the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X, shows the urban region of Munich and the surrounding area. It was acquired on 2 May 2009 at a resolution of 10 metres. The colours in this radar image provide information about how strongly the surface of the Earth reflected back the transmitted radar signals in different polarisations. The urban area is depicted in shades of red and ... more 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2009Space Systems/Loral has announced that Nimiq 5, a direct-to-home television satellite built for Telesat, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite's solar array deployed on schedule early Friday morning following its successful launch from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan aboard an ILS Proton Breeze M launch vehicle. Over the weekend, Nimiq 5's main thrust ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2009The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has decided to delay from 2009 to 2011 the launch of the Phobos Grunt mission to study and return samples from the Martian moon Phobos. The Planetary Society's LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) experiment, designed to test the ability of microorganisms to survive deep space flight, is part of the mission. Due to the relative orbits of Earth ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 23, 2009Russia's launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center has been delayed due to a problem with one of Glonass-M satellites, a source at the launch facility in Kazakhstan said Tuesday. The source said that the decision to delay the launch from Friday until a later date was "made not at the space center but in Moscow, at [Russian Space Agency] Roscosmos." ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Sep 24, 2009Arianespace's French Guiana Launch vehicles for three upcoming Arianespace missions are now at the Spaceport in French Guiana following this week's delivery of components for Ariane 5's record seventh flight of 2009. The latest Ariane 5 was delivered by the MN Toucan, which is one of two roll-on/roll-off sea-going vessels that transport launchers and other hardware from Arianespace's Europ ... more  
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Sep 22, 2009 U.S. Navy warships have begun arriving in Israel for joint missile defense exercises next month, and the Jerusalem Post reports that officials believe some systems may remain in the Jewish state to strengthen its defense shield against feared Iranian missile attacks. Meantime, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a former general who is the country's most decorated soldier, was ... more |
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