Posts Tagged ‘satellites’
 

 
Rockets are not meant to turn that way

On This Day in Aviation History: February 14th

The crashes of Belvia Flight 1834 and Indian Airlines Flight 605, China’s Long March 3 rocket kills villagers in a launch accident, India receives its first Soviet-built fighters, the first GPS satellite launched and more.
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Live Video: Watch ViaSat-1 Communications Satellite Launch from Kazkahstan

The world's most powerful communications satellite ViaSat-1 is scheduled to launch atop a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:48 pm ET.
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Diagram illustrating the routes of the Cosmos and Iridium satellites when they collided in 2009.

On This Day in Aviation History: February 10th

McDonnell Douglas delivers its 10,000th plane, Gary Powers is released by the Soviets, two communications satellites collide in orbit and more...
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Kim Jong-un watches something in the sky. (Photo by Korean Central News Agency)

North Korea Ready To Try Another Rocket Launch Carrying ‘Satellite’

North Korea will this month attempt for a second time to launch a long-range rocket carrying a satellite, the government announced Saturday.
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VIDEO: Indian Satellite Rocket Explodes After Launch

An Indian rocket meant to deliver a communications satellite to orbit exploded 47 seconds after lifting off from Sriharikota Space Center in the nation's Andhra Pradesh state.
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