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[Satellite TODAY 02-01-13] Sea Launch failed to loft an Intelsat satellite into orbit early Friday morning after its Zenit 3SL rocket and Ukrainian-built booster experienced an anomaly approximately 40 seconds...

[Satellite TODAY 01-30-13] SpaceX and Spacecom have reached an agreement to launch Spacecom’s Amos-6 satellite on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Falcon 9 will insert the communications satellite into a...

Azerspace/Africasat-1 Image credit: Orbital [Satellite TODAY 01-23-13] Azerbaijan’s first telecommunications satellite, Azerspace/Africasat-1, is undergoing pre-start test in French Guiana. Arianespace has stated that the satellite is already in the preparatory...

[Satellite TODAY 01-11-13] Commercial launch service provider Arianespace had an exceptionally busy year in 2012 with 10 successful launches, but will attempt to top that performance in 2013, utilizing its...

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-13] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has once again delayed the joint launch of Indian-French satellite SARAL and several Canadian defense satellites. According to ISRO’s Jan. 4...

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-13] Arianespace and Astrium have signed a launch contract for the VNREDSat-1A Earth observation satellite, on behalf of the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, the companies announced...

The re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama for a second four-year term in a bitterly polarized political climate and era of crisis-level budget deficits can fairly be seen to promise...

[Satellite TODAY 12-27-12] SpaceX has entered into a launch services agreement with satellite messaging services provider Orbcomm to launch up to 18 Orbcomm second-generation commercial communications satellites currently being constructed...

Click on the image to watch the video of the third Grasshopper flight. The rocket rose 131 feet for 29-seconds. Image credit: SpaceX [Satellite TODAY 12-26-12] SpaceX’s vertical takeoff and...

[Satellite TODAY 12-19-12] Satellite manufacturer Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and Sea Launch have confirmed that the Independent Oversight Board (IOB) formed to investigate the solar array deployment anomaly following launch of...