by David Todd | Sep 10, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
Indonesian operator PT Telkom has chosen Arianespace to launch its Telkom-3S satellite, as part of a turnkey contract with Thales Alenia Space. Weighing in at about 3,500 kg at launch, Telkom-3S will be boosted into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 ECA...
by David Todd | Sep 10, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
KTsat has chosen Arianespace to launch its next telecommunications satellite, Koreasat 7, using an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, in 2016. Weighing at 3,500 kg launch mass and built by Thales Alenia Space,...
by David Todd | Sep 10, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites
On 8 September 2014, Arianespace announced that under a contract it would be launching the Intelsat 36 spacecraft using its Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle during the third quarter of 2016. The 3,400kg spacecraft is being built by Space Systems/Loral using its LS 1300...
by David Todd | Sep 8, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites, SpaceX
Following a two week delay to allow extra checks on the sensor system on the rocket, and delays of several months as SpaceX struggled to get it into their launch schedule, a SpaceX Falcon 9 V1.1 finally successfully launched the communications satellite Asiasat 6 into...
by David Todd | Sep 5, 2014 | China, commercial launch services
A Chinese Long March 2D/2 launch vehicle, lifting off from the Jiuquan launch site at 0015 GMT on 4 September 2014 successfully deployed two small communications satellites into orbit. Built by SAST (Shanghai Academy of Space Technology) the first satellite, Chuang...
by David Todd | Aug 24, 2014 | commercial launch services
Sea Launch has announced series of cost-reduction measures designed to address an upcoming gap in the launch manifest of the Zenit-3SL system. The cost reduction measures include staff reductions at Sea Launch’s headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland and its prime...
