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European rocket hoists biggest-ever telecoms satellite »

AFP Global Edition | 2009-07-02 07:00:19

A European rocket placed the world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary orbit, launch operator Arianespace said. The 6.9-tonne TerreStar-1, operated by US telecoms services firm TerreStar Networks Inc., was launched by Ariane-5 heavy rocket from the European space base in Kourou, French Guiana, after four delays caused by stormy weather. It is the 189th launch since the European Space Agency (ESA) introduced Ariane in 1979. Arianespace chief executive Jean-Yves Le Gall also told reporters the company's first launch from Kourou using a Soyuz rocket would probably ...

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Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura »

From ZUMA Press Inc | 2009-04-04 10:52:32

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura talks to journalists at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, 04 April 2009, after it was confirmed that North Korea has not yet launched an experimental communications satellite. According to the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea ...

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European telecoms satellite put in orbit »

AFP Global Edition | 2009-04-04 04:00:25

A European telecommunications satellite was successfully placed in orbit Saturday after being lifted into space aboard a Russian Proton-M rocket, the Ria-Novosti cited a Russian space agency official as saying. "The satellite detached from the launcher as planned" and is now under the control of Eutelsat, the Roskosmos official was quoted as saying. The Proton-M blasted off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Friday with the Eutelsat W2A satellite is designed to transmit multimedia services, including television, to mobile phones and receivers fitted in vehicles.

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Space Junk »

From AP News | 2009-04-03 16:17:24

This is a computer generated image provided by the European Space Agency which shows an artist impression of catalogued objects in low-Earth orbit viewed over the Equator. Scientists are keeping a close eye on orbital debris created when two communications satellites one American, the other Russian _ smashed into each ...

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