Tag: Satellite
North Korea says it will launch long-range rocket
North Korea announced Friday it would launch a long-range rocket next month to put a satellite into orbit, a move that would breach a...
Satellite based broadband to be launched next year
The satellite that was launched on April 23 this year by Quantam Global Communications (QGC) will be commercialized in March next year, that will...
China launches Pakistani satellite
China launched a Pakistani satellite early Friday, media reports said.
The carrier rocket blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province in...
China to launch communications satellite for Pakistan
China will launch a communications satellite for Pakistan at an "appropriate time" in the coming days, a spokesman said Wednesday.
A spokesman for the...
Pakistan to have its first satellite broadband service
Pakistan will have its first satellite based broadband operations by end of this year, as a satellite was launched on April 23 that requires...
Medvedev fires space chiefs after satellite crash
MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday fired two top space officials and reprimanded the space agency chief after a launch failure caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own navigation system.
This month's failed launch of three Glonass-M orbiters marked a humiliating setback to the country's efforts to introduce a global rival to the US Global Positioning System.
A presidential statement said Energia Vice President Vyacheslav Filin and Roskosmos deputy head
This month's failed launch of three Glonass-M orbiters marked a humiliating setback to the country's efforts to introduce a global rival to the US Global Positioning System.
A presidential statement said Energia Vice President Vyacheslav Filin and Roskosmos deputy head
Pakistan to launch satellite in 2011
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will launch its first indigenously developed communications satellite on August 14, 2011, from a facility in China and the satellite's life span will be 15 years.
According to sources in Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), the satellite would be launched at a longitude of 38 degrees in geostationary orbit on the equatorial plane at an altitude of 36,000km above the earth's surface.
Paksat-1R will carry a communications payload to
According to sources in Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), the satellite would be launched at a longitude of 38 degrees in geostationary orbit on the equatorial plane at an altitude of 36,000km above the earth's surface.
Paksat-1R will carry a communications payload to
Indian satellite rocket explodes after lift-off
BANGALORE - An Indian space rocket carrying an advanced communications satellite was destroyed by mission control on Saturday following a malfunction after lift-off, officials said.
Live television pictures showed the rocket exploding in a plume of smoke and fire moments after taking off from the Sriharikota launch site, some 80 kilometres from the southern city of Chennai.
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) veered from its intended flight path and was
Live television pictures showed the rocket exploding in a plume of smoke and fire moments after taking off from the Sriharikota launch site, some 80 kilometres from the southern city of Chennai.
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) veered from its intended flight path and was
