DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB), one of the world’s leading space technology companies, today announced that it is in final preparations for the launch of the ...

A Ukrainian Antonov aircraft delivered Amazonas-5 to the Russian spaceport in Kazakhstan in August. Credit: Hispasat. WASHINGTON — A satellite that Spanish fleet operator Hispasat ordered in December ...

The Elon Musk-led company continues to launch rockets at a breakneck pace, with 16 flights of Falcon 9 in the past nine weeks alone. Reading time 2 minutes A Falcon 9 lit up the Florida skies Monday ...

The Amazonas Nexus satellite was successfully orbited today by a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Amazonas Nexus belongs to Spanish ...

Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB), one of the world’s leading space technology companies, today announced the Amazonas 4A commercial communications satellite, built by the company for HISPASAT ...

Amazonas 2, designed to offer audiovisual and telecommunications services in Iberoamerica, will be launched into space from French Guayana, in an Ariane 5 ECA vehicle. The launch involves the ...

The launch is tentatively scheduled for September 9, according to a source in the rocket and space industry MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. The launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the Spanish ...

AMAZONAS SHIPPED: The Amazonas Latin American satellite has been shipped to the launch site of Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, EADS Astrium said June 29. The satellite is scheduled to launch in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A Russian rocket successfully launched the largest telecommunications satellite ever to serve ...

A Russian rocket on Thursday launched the largest satellite to serve Latin America into orbit, and the satellite's operator forecast that the booming communications business between Spain and the ...

PARIS — Hispasat will launch its Amazonas-3 telecommunications satellite atop an Ariane 5 rocket in late 2012 or early 2013, the Spanish commercial satellite fleet operator announced Sept. 7. Built by ...

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