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Boeing Ships Third GPS IIF Satellite to Cape Canaveral for Launch

July 27, 2012

On July 9, Boeing shipped the third of 12 GPS IIF satellites for the U.S. Air Force from the company’s Satellite Development Center in El Segundo to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, aboard a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter. SVN-65 is scheduled to be launched in the fourth quarter of this year aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket. It will join the first and second Boeing-built GPS IIF satellites, launched May 27, 2010, and July 16, 2011, to continue the sustainment and modernization of the GPS network.


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SES-5 SBAS Satellite Successfully Launched

July 10, 2012

The SES-5 geostationary communications satellite (also known as Sirius 5 and Astra 4B) was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 9 at precisely 18:38:29.994 UTC. After a number of manoeuvres by the various rocket stages, the satellite was released from the Breeze-M upper stage into its geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) at 03:50:15.150 UTC on July 10.


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UPDATE: Launch of EGNOS Satellite Delayed until Monday

July 2, 2012

Roscosmos has done some juggling of launch dates for some upcoming satellite launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the launch of SES-5 is now scheduled for Saturday, July 7. The launch of SES-5 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, originally scheduled for June 18, was delayed due to a problem with a first stage subsystem on the Proton launch vehicle.


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UPDATE: EGNOS Satellite Launch Set for August 6

June 21, 2012

  News courtesy of CANSPACE Listserv. UPDATE: The Interfax news agency has announced that the rescheduled launch date […]


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Trial by Vacuum Brings Next Galileo Satellites Closer to Launch

June 14, 2012

The next two Galileo navigation satellites have now endured the harsh vacuum and temperature extremes of space on the way to their scheduled 28 September launch, according to the European Space Agency. The fourth satellite completed 20 days of thermal vacuum testing at Thales Alenia Space Italy’s plant in Rome at the start of June. The third satellite completed the same tests the previous month.


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Galileo Launches Accelerated

March 23, 2012

A spokesperson for the European Space Agency announced at the Munich Summit on March 14 that some Galileo satellites will be launched as many as four at a time in 2014 and 2015, in an effort to meet a target provision date of Galileo’s initial services in 2014 and full operations in 2015.


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Galileo Launches Accelerated

March 23, 2012

Javier Benedicto, the head of the Galileo Project Office for the European Space Agency (ESA), set an aggressive […]


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Galileo IOV Satellites Succesfully Launched into Orbit

October 21, 2011

The first pair of satellites for Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system has been lofted into orbit by the first Russian Soyuz vehicle ever launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana in a milestone mission, reports the European Space Agency. The Soyuz VS01 flight, operated by Arianespace, started with liftoff from the new launch complex in French Guiana at 10:30 GMT on October 21. All of the Soyuz stages performed as expected and the Fregat-MT upper stage released the Galileo satellites into their target orbit at 23,222 km altitude, 3 hours 49 minutes after liftoff.


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