Sunday, December 26th, 2010
Russia plans to launch a new-generation geostationary hydrometeorological satellite, Elektro-L, on January 20, 2011, a Russian space rocket industry source told Interfax-AVN. The launch was originally planned for December 25, 2010. "The launch of a Zenit-2SB launch vehicle coupled...
Monday, December 13th, 2010
The main cause of the loss of Russia's three Glonass-M satellites was due to human error from fueling the booster rocket with an excess of 1.5-2 tons of fuel, the head of the Russian state commission probing...
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
The World Cup 2010 is set to begin. For the first time Africa will host the World Cup and a month...
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has decided to postpone the launch of the Cartosat-2B and other payloads to some time in June due to faults discovered in the launch vehicle. Inspections discovered a troublesome drop in...
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
A new milestone has been reached: this month the Western Australian archive of RapidEye satellite imagery has surpassed 1.75 million sq km. Satellite imagery coverage over Western Australia has increased significantly in the past four months. Almost...
