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U.S. to launch missile at broken satellite
WASHINGTON - President Bush has ordered the Pentagon to use a Navy missile to attempt to destroy a broken U.S.
Debris from unprecedented satellite crash a risk to low-Earth spacecraft
Flightglobal: A collision of two satellites on 11 February was... Author: Niall O'Keeffe Date: 13 February 2009 Read the full article
Surrey Satellite Technology wins Russian contract
Flightglobal: The UK's Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) company has signed a multi-million pound sterling contract with the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Research and Production Enterprise Pan-Russian Research Institute for
ESA plans second generation Galileo satellites
Flightglobal: Four years before its first generation is operational, the European Space Agency is preparing to develop the next-generation... Author: Rob Coppinger Date: 08 August 2007 Read the full article
Second Galileo test satellite reaches orbit
Flightglobal: Second Galileo test satellite reaches orbit Author: David Kaminski-Morrow Date: 28 April 2008 Read the full article
RE: North Korea claims first satellite launch
[quote user="Flightglobal"] North Korea claims it has successfully put an experimental communications satellite, Kwangmyongsong-2, into orbit...... Author: Siva Govindasamy Date: 07 April 2009 Read the full article [/quote]
Satellite observations
Thought I would share with you an amazing hours observation tonight, Sunday 21st September. Between 20:15 and 21:15, I saw fourteen satellites traverse an amazingly clear sky. What I found most interesting was the number that were on a similar, WSW -
GPS IIF satellite
<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;color:#0038a9;font-family:Arial;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;">1st GPS IIF satellite shipped to Cape Canaveral</span></b></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;"
Surrey Satellite Technology wins US lunar orbiter study contract
Flightglobal: Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) has been awarded a study phase contract for a potential joint US-UK lunar orbiter... Author: Rob Coppinger Date: 17 August 2007 Read the full article
Spacedev secures $6.5m micro satellite contract from MDA
Flightglobal: Spacedev is to design and develop micro satellite hardware for the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) under a $6.5 million contract. For phase three of the MDA's distributed sensing experiment programme, Spacedev will provide hardware
