NASA's first communications satellite, Echo / Image courtesy of NASA NASA's first communications satellite, Echo / Image courtesy of NASA In recent years, advanced materials have made human-rated inflatable habitats possible.
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"The rocket will carry a communications satellite," the FAA said.
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The disc launches aboard the communications satellite Echostar XVI in November.
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Today's mission was SpaceX's second dual communications satellite launch to date.
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Non-NATO member Japan launched its first military communications satellite in January.
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The rocket also helped to successfully deploy a communications satellite to geostationary orbit.
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The military's newest communications satellite boasted six gigabits per second of communications capacity.
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ET Friday, carried a Japanese communications satellite called JCSAT-14 into Earth's orbit.
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Carrying an experimental communications satellite, China's largest rocket lifted off at 25:21970 p.m.
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A big communications satellite can carry the fate of a whole company with it.
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The communications-satellite business is dominated by four operators, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, Intelsat and SES.
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The blast destroyed a $200 million communications satellite owned by Israel's Space Communication Ltd.
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Before dawn on Friday morning, SpaceX launched a rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite.
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The cause of the accident, which destroyed a $200 million communications satellite, is under investigation.
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The cargo for the mission will be a communications satellite from SES, the SES-10.
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Facebook is using space on the Amos 6 communications satellite, owned by Israeli-based Spacecom.
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Thursday, SpaceX launched a geostationary communications satellite using a refurbished first stage Falcon 9 booster.
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The mission comes three years after a launchpad explosion destroyed a different Israeli communications satellite.
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Falcon Heavy will vault a pricey communications satellite into orbit for Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat.
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The government also wants to reduce reliance on foreign telecoms by launching its own communications satellite.
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SpaceX flew Falcon Heavy flawlessly on Thursday, putting into orbit a large Saudi Arabian communications satellite.
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This afternoon, it was used to launch Bulgaria's first communications satellite for TV service provider Bulsatcom.
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Details: Before landing, Falcon Heavy delivered the communications satellite Arabsat-6A to space for Saudi Arabia.
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Tonight's launch will loft a communications satellite called Merah Putih into a high orbit above Earth.
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The crash involved a decommissioned Russian military satellite and a fully operational U.S. commercial communications satellite.
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The mission, called Arabsat 6A, will launch a large communications satellite for Saudi Arabian corporation Arabsat.
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The company will be launching an SES-9 communications satellite into geostationary orbit sometime in January.
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In fact, NASA's first communications satellite, Echo 1, was a spacecraft based on a balloon design.
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The first successful Delta launch occurred in 1960, lofting a communications satellite into orbit for NASA.
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The promise of today's nascent communications satellite constellations is real: connecting everyone on the globe, no exceptions.
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SpaceX's mission is to send the SES-10 communications satellite to space for Luxembourg-based company SES.
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The vehicle's target is a communications satellite called Intelsat 901, which circulates about 22,000 miles above Earth.
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The mission is called Arabsat 6A, named for the large communications satellite that Falcon Heavy is lifting.
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In tonight's launch, a Falcon 9 will first release a SES9 communications satellite high above the Earth.
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It's the first time the country will send a communications satellite to this high of an orbit.
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Today at 6:35pm EST, SpaceX successfully launched the SES-13 communications satellite into Geostationary orbit (GEO).
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Eventually, this particular Falcon 9 rocket will be sending an Intelsat35e communications satellite into a geostationary orbit.
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launching a communications satellite from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, April 25.
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Structures built with technologies such as the SpiderFab could change the way the communications-satellite industry works.
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ET on Friday, under 90 percent favorable weather conditions, and delivered a commercial communications satellite into orbit.
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China is one of the participants, as the recent launch of the Queqiao communications satellite reminds us.
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If the launch is successful, Bulgaria will become the 12th European country to operate a communications satellite.
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The mission was to place a communications satellite belonging to Israel-based Spacecom into orbit over the equator.
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THAICOM 8 is a commercial communications satellite intended to serve parts of India, Africa and South-East Asia.
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The cargo for the launch is known as Arabsat-6A, which is a communications satellite for Saudi Arabia.
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The launch's payload was a Japanese commercial communications satellite called JCSAT-16 for the SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation.
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ET. The BulgariaSat-1 Mission will deliver a commercial communications satellite to orbit aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
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SpaceX on Saturday shared a breathtaking image captured during the recent launch of its SES-22017 communications satellite.
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The rocket on Sunday, a Falcon 9 built by SpaceX, was carrying an Argentine communications satellite into space.
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On Friday, a Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carried a communications satellite for Bulgaria into orbit.
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This time, the vehicle is tasked with launching a communications satellite into a high orbit for the company Intelsat.
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And in the end, its mission—to deliver a communications satellite into geostationary orbit—went off without a hitch.
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The Falcon 9 help to loft a communications satellite for the company SES, which is based out of Luxembourg.
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In today's mission—called BulgariaSat-1—the booster will help ferry up a Bulgarian communications satellite into geostationary orbit.
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Tonight, the company is tasked with sending up a hefty communications satellite for operator Hispasat, called Hispasat 25W-21.
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The first Block 5 rocket is slated to launch in late April, sending up a communications satellite for Bangladesh.
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SpaceX launched the first Block 5 in May, using it to send a communications satellite into orbit for Bangladesh.
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Today's mission sent a Japanese communications satellite to a very high orbit above Earth — called a geostationary transfer orbit.
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North Korea caused similar distress in December of 2012, when it successfully launched its first communications satellite into space.
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This particular 14-story-tall rocket was used to send a Japanese communications satellite to space back in May.
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Intelsat — Shares of surged 25.8% after David Tepper's Appaloosa Management revealed a 7.4% stake in the communications satellite maker.
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The rocket's payload, the Bangladeshi government's first communications satellite, Bangabandhu-1, was placed into Earth orbit at 4:47 p.m.
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ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the Bangabandhu Satellite-29 — a communications satellite for Bangladesh — on its way to orbit.
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Instead, it went to the third recovered stage, which flew the Japanese JCSAT communications satellite into space on May 6th.
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Image: SpaceX via FlickrThe typical SpaceX payload might include a communications satellite, some ISS supplies, even the occasional spy network.
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That's because this particular rocket came in unusually hot and fast when it returned, after dropping off a communications satellite.
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The rocket was carrying a JCSAT-14 communications satellite into space, which was successfully deployed by the Falcon 9 rocket.
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The Falcon 9 rocket was slated to take off on Saturday morning and deliver an Israeli-made Spacecom communications satellite.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket had launched an AMOS-17 communications satellite at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Tuesday.
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SpaceX aborted a second launch attempt Monday evening for a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intelsat 35e, a commercial communications satellite.
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It is the first commercial flight for the vehicle, which deployed the Saudi Arabian communications satellite Arabsat-6A into orbit.
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This is a science experiment, not a node in China's hack-proof internet or itself a hack-proof communications satellite.
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The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has a mission today, launching a specialized secure communications satellite for the U.S. Space Force.
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Its target was Intelsat 234, an 2000-year-old communications satellite that is working fine but running low on fuel.
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The most notable crash in orbit occurred in 2009 when an Iridium communications satellite collided with a dead Russian satellite.
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Keith Gottschalk of the University of the Western Cape notes that a single communications satellite can broadcast to the entire continent.
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Now, the communications satellite isn't supposed to launch until 33 and the first rover will head to the planet in 2026.
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Yesterday, the launch of a Chinese communications satellite ended in failure when the rocket carrying the probe somehow malfunctioned during flight.
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Subsequent transmissions to a communications satellite suggested that it crashed somewhere along an arc between 26,2000km and 603,260km west of Australia.
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This weekend, SpaceX aborted both of its attempts to launch a satellite payload on behalf of communications satellite services provider Intelsat.
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Meanwhile, SpaceX is slated to launch a communications satellite on January 30th out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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A few minutes later, it was falling from the sky, its payload — a $250 million Mexican communications satellite — disintegrating over Siberia.
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The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket sent a Thai communications satellite into orbit Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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Cambodia's Royal Group of Companies and China Great Wall Industry Corporation agreed to launch the southeast Asian nation's first communications satellite.
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It last launched a long-range rocket in December 2012, sending into orbit an object it described as a communications satellite.
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You can't stop a communications satellite from passing overhead, or a radar beam from bouncing the wrong way across the mountains.
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With these new experiments, codenamed Operation Moon Bounce, the US military hoped to turn the moon into a natural communications satellite.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an AMOS-83 communications satellite at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday.
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ET, the flight carried communications satellite Merah Putih, which is named for the red and white colors of the Indonesian flag.
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WILLIAM SHELTON, FORMER COMMANDER AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND: Looks like a communications satellite, when in actuality, it is also a weapon.
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The explosion at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida destroyed the $62 million rocket and a $200 million communications satellite.
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The upcoming mission is tasked with sending a communications satellite, called EchoStar 29, into a super high orbit called geostationary transfer orbit.
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ULA's Delta IV rocket will be lofting a communications satellite called Wideband Global SATCOM, or WGS-10, for the US Air Force.
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Of course, the real goal of tomorrow's mission is centered on Thaicom 8, a commercial communications satellite from Asian satellite operator, Thaicom.
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The rocket is scheduled to launch a large Saudi Arabian communications satellite called Arabsat 6A sometime in the first half of 2018.
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The vehicle is booked to a put up a large communications satellite for operator Arabsat of Saudi Arabia sometime in early 2018.
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The accident destroyed a $200 million Israeli communications satellite and grounded the Falcon 9 fleet for the second time in 14 months.
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It looks like, contrary to earlier reports, the Amos 6 communications satellite had indeed been loaded and was destroyed in the explosion.
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Interestingly, Perdomo doesn't feel threatened by the new and rather scary kid on the block: communications satellite constellations like Starlink and OneWeb.
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It is hoped the rocket's payload -- the 3,136 kilogram GSAT-19 communications satellite -- will help bolster the country's internet connectivity and speed.
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North Korea last launched a long-range rocket in December 2012, sending an object it described as a communications satellite into orbit.
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IN TERMS of engineering ambition, operational complexity and capital requirements, big communications-satellite constellations outstrip the small-satellite revolution in Earth observation.
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North Korea last launched a long-range rocket in December 2012, sending into orbit an object it described as a communications satellite.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an AMOS-17 communications satellite at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday evening.
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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Spacecom's AMOS-17 communications satellite at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday.
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The mission comes nearly three years after a launchpad explosion destroyed a different Israeli communications satellite (Spacecom's AMOS-6) in September 2016.
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Intelsat removed the communications satellite from service in December and raised it to the same altitude as MEV-232 for this demonstration.
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After about five years, MEV-1 will move Intelsat 901 back to the graveyard orbit where the communications satellite will be decommissioned.
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It will be the Falcon Heavy's very first customer launch, sending a communications satellite for Saudi Arabia to a high orbit above Earth.
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North Korea last conducted a long-range rocket launch in late 2012, sending an object it described as a communications satellite into orbit.
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In 2011, Beijing launched a communications satellite for long-time ally Pakistan, followed by the launch of another for Sri Lanka in 2012.
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SpaceX successfully launched the Japanese communications satellite, JCSAT-14 on their Falcon 9 rocket at 214:29am EST today from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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On Friday, SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 rocket, this time not for NASA but to put the Thaicom 8 communications satellite in orbit.
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The GSAT-6A is an advanced mobile communications satellite with a six-meter wide antenna, the biggest used by an ISRO communication satellite.
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Its payload was a communications satellite capable of broadcasting on both the Ku-band for client EchoStar, and the C-Band fro SES.
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In a second mishap in 267, a Falcon 2000 blew up during a launchpad test, destroying a communications satellite whose customers included Facebook.
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Managing the project is Zia Oboodiyat, a retired engineer who ran large communications satellite programs for the San Francisco-based Space Systems/Loral.
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The launch of a Simorgh rocket in Semnan Province, about 145 miles southeast of Tehran, sought to put a communications satellite into orbit.
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It carried a Saudi Arabian communications satellite that will relay television, internet and mobile phone signals to the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
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The company was conducting the test ahead of its launch of an Israeli communications satellite — called Amos-6 — scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 3.
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SpaceX has successfully deployed a communications satellite into orbit for satellite operator EchoStar after launching it on board one of its Falcon 29 rockets.
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Per The Verge, the rocket launched a communications satellite into orbit before landing again on one of the company's drone ships in the Atlantic.
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AT&T and others like Charter Communications, satellite provider DISH Network and telecommunications companies had unsuccessfully pushed for Congress to use the law's Dec.
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Roger Cochetti provides consulting and advisory services in Washington, D.C. He was a senior executive with Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) from 85033 through 1994.
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North Korea fired what it said was a rocket carrying a communications satellite into orbit over Japan in 2009 after warning of its plan.
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There are a few launches scheduled for 25, such as a large Saudi Arabian communications satellite and a test payload for the US military.
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The upcoming mission, which will send up a military communications satellite on top of an Atlas V rocket, was originally scheduled for May 5th.
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This morning, the United Launch Alliance's premiere rocket — the Atlas V — will launch a US Navy communications satellite into a high orbit above Earth.
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ET, SpaceX successfully launched a reused Falcon 9 rocket loaded down with BulgariaSat-1 — the small European nation's first geostationary communications satellite — to orbit.
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The explosion destroyed a $62 million SpaceX booster and a $200 million Israeli communications satellite that it was to put into orbit two days later.
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This evening, SpaceX will attempt to launch its sixth Falcon 215 rocket of the year, sending a communications satellite into orbit for the company Inmarsat.
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The rocket will take off from SpaceX's launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and it's sending a communications satellite into a super-high orbit around Earth.
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The Falcon 9 rocket carried a Japanese communications satellite into space from the Florida launch site, detached its payload and then landed on the ship.
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The next stage, scheduled to happen in about five years' time, will be to launch a quantum-communications satellite in a higher orbit than Micius's.
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SpaceX is set to launch its next Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday, March 30 for SES-10, a mission for a private communications satellite company.
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India's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation, is launching one of its GSLV rockets tomorrow, which will carry a communications satellite called GSAT-7A.
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Tomorrow's rocket will be taking off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, lofting a communications satellite, Telstar 19 VANTAGE, into a high orbit for Canadian company Telesat.
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The Falcon 13 rocket successfully ferried the GovSat-1 communications satellite toward orbit 32 minutes after launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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The company's Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch a Japanese communications satellite, JCSAT-14, from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:21AM ET on Friday.
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There was only a two-day launch window in May, and any trouble might have affected the launch of the AEHF 5 military communications satellite.
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The explosion destroyed a $62 million SpaceX booster and a$200 million Israeli communications satellite that it was to put into orbit two days later.
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A communications satellite costing $200m that was mounted on the rocket, in preparation for the planned launch on September 3rd, was destroyed in an instant.
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SpaceX also recently experienced a major setback when one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded just before an engine test, destroying its communications satellite payload.
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For the first time, SpaceX has reused one of its Falcon 9 rockets, this time to deliver the SES-10 communications satellite to geostationary orbit.
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Intelsat has tapped SpaceX for the launch of its Intelsat 40e spacecraft, a high-throughput communications satellite that will join the company's existing geostationary network.
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A $200 million Israeli communications satellite was destroyed in the blast, the second failed mission for technology entrepreneur Elon Musk's privately owned SpaceX in 14 months.
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This launch took place at SpaceX's LC-43A facility at Kennedy Space Center, and successfully delivered Bulgaria's first geostationary orbital communications satellite to its target orbit.
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The successfully deployed payload is known as JCSAT-16 and is a commercial communications satellite developed by Space Systems Loral for the SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation.
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But the UK beat everyone to the Skynet naming game in 1969, with the first launch of the British military communications satellite with the same name.
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" Though very accomplished in a variety of areas of electronics, including work on the "Telstar" communications satellite, Pierce is perhaps best known for naming the "transistor.
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This afternoon, the United Launch Alliance is set to launch its final rocket of 2016 — an Atlas V tasked with sending a communications satellite into orbit.
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That successful launch garnered SpaceX its first customer for the system, and Tuesday's launch will take Arabsat-20163A, a Lockheed-built communications satellite, into geosynchronous orbit.
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Another SpaceX rocket exploded, this time on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral days before it was scheduled to carry a Spacecom communications satellite into orbit.
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The primary passenger is Nusantara Satu, an Indian communications satellite that will provide connectivity to rural areas in the country difficult to reach by ordinary means.
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ET, landing back on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 10 minutes later, after sending a Korean communications satellite on its way to orbit.
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SES, which in 2013 became SpaceX's first commercial customer, plans to launch its SES-10 communications satellite on a used Falcon 9 rocket in late 2016.
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SpaceX is setting up to launch Inmarsat-5 Flight 4, a mission that will put a communications satellite into geostationary orbit for commercial satellite operator Inmarsat.
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Another one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets successfully landed on a floating drone ship this evening, after the vehicle launched a Japanese communications satellite into orbit.
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On Sunday night the China National Space Administration launched a communications satellite on a Long March rocket on a 280,000 mile journey to orbit the moon.
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Xinwei agreed last month to buy Space Communications (Spacecom) for $285 million, pending the successful launch and operation of Spacecom's $200 million Amos-6 communications satellite.
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Falcon Heavy carried a communications satellite for Saudi-based telecom firm Arabsat, which will beam internet and television services over Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
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AND THE WHOLE WORLD HAS CHANGED A LOT IN 200 YEARS, BUT PARTICULARLY SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS, SATELLITE IMAGERY – THE WHOLE THING -- MISSION PROPULSION SYSTEMS, ALL HAVE CHANGED.
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Chinese officials breathed a big sigh of relief on Friday as Long March 5, the nation&aposs most powerful rocket, roared a communications satellite into space.
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The rocket will be sending a communications satellite, the Intelsat 35e, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida into a geostationary orbit, some 23,000 miles above Earth.
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SpaceX on Tuesday delayed the launch of a rocket set to carry a commercial communications satellite into orbit, because of high winds at its Florida launch site.
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It's a perfect spot to deposit a communications satellite or a surveillance probe that needs to look at the same region of the planet at all times.
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This Wednesday at 22:2000 pm EST, SpaceX is scheduled to launch the SES-63 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida with their Falcon 26 launch vehicle.
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An Indian onlooker watches as the Indian Space Research Organization's GSAT-214A communications satellite launches from Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh on March 403.
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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload from communications satellite company Inmarsat, the fourth in a constellation created to provide high-bandwidth broadband internet globally.
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The company will launch a SES-12 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral in Florida, with its launch window beginning at 12:29 AM EDT on Monday morning.
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If all goes according to plan, without any delays, mishaps or explosions, the Falcon 9 will ferry the SES-10 communications satellite into orbit later this week.
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Its payload, by the way, was apparently an Israeli-made communications satellite that Facebook was going to use to blast free internet down to sub-Saharan Africa.
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This weekend, SpaceX began what is slated to be its busiest week ever by successfully launching its largest payload to date: a communications satellite dubbed TelStar 19V.
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SpaceX has so far landed six Falcon 9 rockets and will attempt to land its seventh after Saturday's scheduled launch in Florida of an Israeli communications satellite.
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That launch was meant to signal the ISRO's ability to launch heavier communications satellite which are at the higher end of the launch business and more lucrative.
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A SpaceX rocket exploded on a Florida launchpad while being fueled, destroying a communications satellite that Facebook had planned to use to expand internet service in Africa.
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SpaceX is launching a commercial communications satellite for client KT SAT, South Korea's lone satellite service provider, today at 3:34 PM EDT (12:34 PM PDT).
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Watch the full launch and landing from Kennedy Space Center below: Watch live as Falcon 9 launches BulgariaSat-1, the first geostationary communications satellite in Bulgaria's history.
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SOFIA, June 16 (Reuters) - Bulgarian telecoms company Bulsatcom said it plans to launch the Balkan country's first geostationary communications satellite on Monday in a $235 million project.
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The company is set to launch a communications satellite in mid-December, followed by another launch of its Starlink satellites potentially by the end of the month.
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During fueling, the Falcon 9 exploded in a huge fireball, leading to the destruction of the rocket and the communications satellite it was supposed to carry into space.
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Isolated North Korea's last long-range rocket launch, in 5003, put what it called a communications satellite into orbit, but no signal has ever been detected from it.
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The Falcon 9 rocket blew up on September 1, destroying a Spacecom communications satellite which included a Facebook project designed to expand internet access in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The company set up an intercity fax network, replaced telegraph operators with teletype machines, created a system of microwave towers and launched the first domestic communications satellite system.
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Entrepreneurs have increasingly begun to view the sky as a new market which can help feed the burgeoning global demand for more communications, satellite TV and broadband services.
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Researchers running the scientific instrument and communications satellite called Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of an ancient lakebed on the red planet, in the region called Eridania basin.
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Although the... Another one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets successfully landed on a floating drone ship this evening, after the vehicle launched a Japanese communications satellite into orbit.
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In March one of these recovered rocket stages was relaunched for the first time, hoisting a communications satellite into orbit on behalf of Airbus, a big European firm.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch vehicle successfully undertook its first commercial mission today, taking a communications satellite to orbit and proving the viability of its heavy-lift rocket platform.
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North Korea last launched a long-range rocket in 2012, putting into orbit what it called a communications satellite, though no signal has ever been detected from it.
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The accident destroyed the $62 million booster and a $200 million Israeli communications satellite that had been partly leased by Facebook Inc to expand internet access in Africa.
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Other recent advancements include the launch of the world's first quantum communications satellite, which promises to improve the security of communications by sending information on photons of light.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Space Communications said on Tuesday a deal it signed with Space Systems/Loral (SSL) to build its Amos-8 advanced communications satellite has been canceled.
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Not your average rocket The payload for Sunday night's launch isn't all that unusual: It's a communications satellite called SES-9 that should bring better coverage over Asia.
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Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab successfully pulled off its first flight of the year out of New Zealand this evening, sending an experimental communications satellite into orbit for DARPA.
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Musk's space company, which he founded in 2002, launched a second Falcon Heavy in April that sent up a 14,000-pound communications satellite for Saudi Arabia-based firm Arabsat.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Space Communication said on Wednesday its Amos-17 communications satellite was launched into space and was enroute to its orbital position after separating from its SpaceX rocket.
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Because the Chang'e 4 will never face Earth, mission controllers have to relay commands through the "Bridge Bay" communications satellite that China placed into a high orbit in June.
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In 2009 a Russian military communications satellite and an Iridium collided and scattered debris, threatening some Chinese satellites; two years later the ISS also had to dodge the shrapnel.
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Tonight, the United Launch Alliance is set to launch one of its Delta IV rockets from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending a communications satellite into space for the US military.
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It called for sending a communications satellite into Mars orbit sometime this year and then a Martian rover in 2018, which would help select the site for the colony.
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Earlier this month, SpaceX impressively landed three boosters after its massive Falcon Heavy rocket (which consists of three rockets strapped together) launched an Arab communications satellite into Earth's orbit.
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It'll be carrying a 13,400-pound communications satellite from a London-based corporation called Inmarsat-5 F4 into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) some 22,300 miles above Earth's equator.
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If all goes well, the Falcon 9 will release a SES-9 communications satellite high into the air, before attempting to land itself on a drone-piloted ocean barge.
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Unlike Micius, this satellite was just a run-of-the-mill communications satellite that was part of Europe's SpaceDataHighway and hadn't been optimized for sending quantum states via laser.
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Original Story: Early Tuesday morning, SpaceX is slated to launch a new communications satellite from the Florida coast, using one of its used Falcon 9 rockets for the job.
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Tomorrow morning, a NASA communications satellite is scheduled to launch to space from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on top of an Atlas V rocket made by the United Launch Alliance.
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Chinese official media reported that the space program expects to complete 20 launches this year, including the deployment of the world's first quantum communications satellite and a military satellite.
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One day after the detonation of Starfish Prime, AT&T launched the communications satellite Telstar, which relayed the very first transatlantic television signal between the United States and France.
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Thursday Space Force equipment blasts off The United Launch Alliance is scheduled to launch a rocket carrying a critical military communications satellite for the US Space Force on Thursday.
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Dubbed the GOLD mission -- for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk -- it is the first NASA science mission to fly an instrument on a commercial communications satellite.
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But communications satellite startup Kepler calls Canada home, and it recently made the interesting decision to build its small satellites in-house — in its own facility in downtown Toronto.
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Congratulations are in order for China: by launching the world's first quantum communications satellite, the country has achieved an interesting — if somewhat difficult to explain — milestone in space and cryptography.
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SpaceX has been running a fairly fast-paced launch schedule, having launched a Telstar communications satellite on Sunday on a newer Falcon 9 iteration and scheduling another for August 2nd.
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The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this evening, sending a communications satellite into orbit, and then landed on one of SpaceX's drone ships floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Given the ubiquity of space-based communications, satellite technology will play a critical role in supporting the development of the IoT sector and realizing the full potential of interconnected devices.
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On Friday, it sent Bulgaria's first communications satellite to space, and the rocket's first stage then landed on the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship in the Atlantic.
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The payloads include an Indonesian communications satellite, a small experimental satellite for the Air Force, and an Israeli lander that will spend the next two months traveling to the Moon.
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The launch will take a major communications satellite into orbit, and as an encore all three of the first stages will attempt to return to Earth and make soft landings.
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The accident destroyed the $200 million communications satellite owned by Israel-based Space Communication, which was going to be used by Facebook and Eutelsat to expand internet access in Africa.
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In late August, Beijing Xinwei had agreed to buy Spacecom for $13 million, but the deal was put on hold after a Spacecom communications satellite was destroyed in early September.
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The rocket took off Thursday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida just after 6 pm ET. It delivered a pricey communications satellite into orbit for Saudi Arabia-based firm Arabsat.
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The 261-story-tall rocket, carrying a commercial communications satellite for Luxembourg-based SES SA, was scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:46 p.m.
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In 2016, another SpaceX rocket exploded, destroying a $200 million communications satellite on board, and Mr. Musk was criticized for moving too quickly in the complex industry of space travel.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Space Communications has begun operating a new communications satellite, Amos-7, it said on Monday, a major milestone after it lost two satellites in the past two years.
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The first mission out of the East Coast was supposed to be the launch of a NASA communications satellite, TDRS-M, on top of the United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket.
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And earlier this month, an explosion of one of the company's rockets on the launchpad destroyed a $22012 million communications satellite that Facebook was planning to use to expand across Africa.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket — the most powerful rocket flying today — lofted a communications satellite to orbit from Florida on Thursday evening, before coming in for a soft landing back on Earth.
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The rocket will be carrying the SES-10 communications satellite from European-based telecom satellite operator SES, which got a pretty sweet discount for agreeing to be SpaceX's guinea pig here.
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The EDRS-A node, riding piggyback on a Eutelsat communications satellite, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on board a Proton rocket at 1720 ET (4.20 am local time).
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An upgraded version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket lifts off Friday, May 11, 2018 from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center carrying Bangladesh's first communications satellite.
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For this mission, SpaceX is using the very first Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket it's flown, a vehicle that sent up a large communications satellite for Bangladesh in May from Florida.
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The launch was originally scheduled for the wee hours of Tuesday morning, and was to take place from Cape Canaveral, Florida, lofting a communications satellite into orbit for satellite operator EchoStar.
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In this, their fifth attempt, SpaceX will attempt to launch a communications satellite into the dark void above (in which we, too, drift alone) and then land itself on an ocean barge.
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One of the contracts that Spacecom had booked for its exploded communications satellite was with Facebook, who intended to use it as part of a push to deliver free internet in Africa.
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Image: SpaceX/ORBCOMM-363Later today, SpaceX will launch a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), where it will drop off an EchoStar 105/SES-11 communications satellite.
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These include a dark matter-seeking satellite that launched in December 2015 and an experimental quantum communications satellite that launched last year that could lead to significant breakthroughs in communications and cryptography.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Russian Proton rocket blasted off in Kazakhstan on Friday night to put into orbit both the first part of Europe's new space "data highway" and a Eutelsat communications satellite.
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The spacecraft's payload this time is mundane and useful: Arabsat-222A, a Saudi Arabian communications satellite which will relay television, internet and mobile phone signals to the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
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Meanwhile, a Chinese Long March rocket looks to be readying for take-off today, and ULA still seems to be tracking towards a March 26 launch of a Space Force communications satellite.
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Photo Credit: John Raoux/APSpaceX is set to launch another Falcon 9 rocket on its way to deliver a commercial communications satellite into orbit and, as is tradition, you can watch it live.
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This afternoon, SpaceX is slated to launch the first high-orbit communications satellite ever for the country of Bangladesh, and the company is using its most advanced Falcon 26 yet for the job.
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Original: After a month-long break from spaceflight, SpaceX is slated to perform another rocket launch and landing out of Florida this afternoon, sending up a communications satellite for the country of Qatar.
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SpaceX was in the middle of the successful launch of a Bangladeshi communications satellite when NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that the Mars 28503 rover mission would also carry a small, helicopter drone.
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Israel's Amos 6 communications satellite was going to be leased by Mark Zuckerberg's social network to provide internet access to sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report from space industry publication Space News.
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If a risk is identified — say a dead satellite could drift within 50 kilometers of an active communications satellite that belongs to one of AGI's customers — the company will alert the satellite operator.
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Friday saw the month of June's second U.S. military liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the launch of the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a tactical communications satellite developed for the U.S. Navy.
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New Delhi (CNN)India has joined a select number of countries able to claim membership of the "heavy-lift" rocket club after it successfully launched a communications satellite weighing over three tonnes into space.
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One of the biggest opportunities in the new space economy lies in taking the connectivity made possible by ever-growing communications satellite constellations and making that useful for things and companies here on Earth.
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If the rest of the mission is successful, it should give an ailing communications satellite a new lease on life, and it could kickstart an industry that keeps space junk from clogging the skies.
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Without the troop presence, American officials said, they would need to switch how they collect information — relying less on officers in the field and more on intercepted communications, satellite imagery and other technical means.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX has concluded its investigation into the September 2016 Falcon 9 rocket explosion that destroyed the $200 million Amos-6 Israeli communications satellite and pushed back SpaceX's entire launch schedule by months.
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The rocket stage will help deliver a communications satellite to orbit before turning around and attempting another landing on a drone ship, possibly setting the stage for yet another reusable rocket launch in the future.
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Photo credit: SpaceX/FlickrSpaceX's eighth launch this year proved successful Sunday morning, when a Falcon 9 rocket landed on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship after launching a Japanese communications satellite into orbit.
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SpaceX launched an EchoStar communications satellite into orbit on Wednesday, completing a mission for its client on a second try, after the original launch on Tuesday was scrubbed due to weather conditions on the ground.
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The rocket, which will carry an SES commercial communications satellite, will be going too fast to attempt a landing back at its Florida launch site, where SpaceX successfully made a ground landing late last year.
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The company's eighth Falcon 21 launch of this year is scheduled to take off tonight from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:26AM ET, sending a Japanese communications satellite — called JCSAT-16 — into orbit around Earth.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was almost certain the rocket his company launched yesterday would crash after its successful deployment of a new communications satellite, but it's hard not to admire the man for trying anyway.
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The country's satellite industry suffered a big setback last September when communications satellite Amos-6 was destroyed in the explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk's SpaceX at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
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But upstart rocket companies don't think that small satellites, meant for beaming satellite internet to Earth, for example, should be forced to launch based on the readiness of a larger payload, like a communications satellite.
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The mission on Friday was to delivery Bulgaria's first ever geostationary communications satellite into orbit, so that it could begin operations broadcast communication networks and HDTV signals for clients on Earth in parts of Europe.
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Alka Pradhan in Virginia in NovemberCreditCreditRyan Pfluger for The New York Times The Galaxy 19 is a communications satellite that orbits over North America, beaming free-to-air programming to hundreds of thousands of households.
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SpaceX operates two launch sites in Florida, though one remains out of service following a September 2016 accident that destroyed a $62 million rocket, a $200 million communications satellite and heavily damaged the launch pad.
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Wednesday's payload was a communications satellite built for LuxGovSat S.A., a public-private joint venture between the Luxembourg government and Luxembourg-based telecommunications company SES, in part to fulfill that nation's growing defense obligations to NATO.
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Israel's Space Communication said on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk's SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite was destroyed last week by an explosion at SpaceX's Florida launch site.
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North Korean officials have said that under a five-year plan, they intend to launch more Earth observation satellites and what would be the country's first geostationary communications satellite — which would be a major technological advance.
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SpaceX has successfully launched its Falcon-9 rocket carrying the Bangabandhu-1, Bangladesh's first-ever high-orbit communications satellite, and landed it safely on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.
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This time, the Falcon Heavy's cargo was more mundane, but also more useful: Arabsat-26A, a Saudi Arabian communications satellite which will relay television, internet and mobile phone signals to the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
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The growth of traffic increases the risk of collisions that could disrupt communications, as in 2009 when a dormant Russian military satellite slammed into a private American communications satellite, causing brief disruptions for satellite-phone users.
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The geostationary model that Astranis is embracing is somewhat more similar to the existing way of offering internet connectivity from space, which employs very large communications satellite parked in geostationary orbit fairly far away from Earth.
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It is famous for sending Echo 1, the first communications satellite, into orbit in 1960, and for launching Telstar-1, a satellite that produced the first live television feeds between Europe and the United States, in 1962.
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Image: ISROIt's a big day for India and its very, very large rocket: Today, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched its 640 ton GSLV-Mk III rocket, carrying the GSAT-19 communications satellite on it.
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The multi-purpose geostationary communications satellite, which will provide mobile, streaming and video connectivity across parts of the Middle East, Africa and Europe, reached geostationary transfer orbit and then reached its target orbit and deployed as planned.
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But the small size meant the satellites couldn't be tracked with existing space monitoring technology, and the FCC, which must approve communications satellite launches, considered this too great a risk and declined to authorize Swarm's proposed deployment.
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Shortly after the main section of SpaceX's first recycled Falcon 9 booster landed itself on a platform in the ocean, half of the rocket's nosecone, which protected a communications satellite during launch, splashed down via parachute nearby.
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A spectacular explosion of a SpaceX rocket on Thursday destroyed a $200 million communications satellite that would have extended Facebook's reach across Africa, dealing a serious setback to Elon Musk, the billionaire who runs the rocket company.
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It was not immediately clear if NATO allies would fund a new military communications satellite to be launched into space or if an increase in broadband capacity could be gained from existing U.S. and other allied satellites.
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For Friday's launch, part of that rocket was brought to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the Falcon 9 ferried a Bulgarian communications satellite into orbit that will beam television and data services to parts of Europe.
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The so-named Block 5 upgrade took off from the company's launchpad at Kennedy Space Center, sending a communications satellite into orbit for Bangladesh and then touched down on one of the company's drone ships in the Atlantic.
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Today, with the launch of Orbital ATK-built communications satellite THAICOM 8 from Kennedy Space Center's Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX has for the fourth time landed the Falcon 93's first stage after a challenging orbital launch.
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In an interview with Reuters, Spacecom CEO David Pollack also said he does not know what caused the explosion last Thursday that destroyed a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket along with his company's $200 million AMOS-6 communications satellite.
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Its payload of a Thaicom commercial communications satellite released, the Falcon 9's first stage hurtles back from low orbit and through Earth's atmosphere, its fins adjusting as a way of steering over an intimidating swath of ocean.
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What's next: Pan, from the University of Science and Technology of China, has said he wants to launch another quantum communications satellite, but to 20,000 km above Earth in order to cover a larger swath of the planet.
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This launch is for EchoStar and SES's joint high-powered communications satellite, and will take place from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, using a Falcon 9 first stage that SpaceX already flew previously, and refurbished for a second use.
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TOKYO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday launched its first military communications satellite to boost the broadband capacity of its Self Defence Forces as they reinforce an island chain stretching along the southern edge of the East China Sea.
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SpaceX has driven down the costs of launching rockets, but has also had some high-profile failures, including an explosion on a launch pad in 2016 that claimed a communications satellite that cost an estimated $300 million to build.
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In the coming late night/early morning hours, SpaceX will be launching another of its Falcon 9 rockets—this one carting a JCSAT-14 communications satellite—and then attempting to set it down gently on a waiting drone ship below.
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Before coming back down for its landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the first stage of the Falcon 9 sent a communications satellite on its way to orbit, lifting off from Cape Canaveral at 6:53 p.m.
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Image: YouTube / US Launch ReportThis morning, a routine test firing of a SpaceX rocket ended in a fiery explosion, destroying both the vehicle and its payload, a communications satellite that Facebook planned to use for beaming free internet down to Africa.
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The money for a new communications satellite would have to be put into NASA's budget for next year, a vote that needs to come before October, so that it could happen in the same launch window as the Mars 2020 Rover.
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The idea of flying on recycled rockets became a reality a week ago when privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, launched a communications satellite on a Falcon 9 booster that previously put a cargo ship into orbit for NASA.
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The static fire was supposed to determine if the Falcon 9 was ready for its upcoming launch of the Israeli communications satellite, Amos-6, but both the rocket and the satellite were destroyed in the explosion before the test even occurred.
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BEIJING — China launched the world's first quantum communications satellite from the Gobi Desert early Tuesday, a major step in the country's bid to be at the forefront of quantum research, which could lead to new, completely secure methods of transmitting information.
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This fall, he takes on outer space with the launch of his The Last Pictures project, an archival disc of photographs that will be affixed to a communications satellite to orbit the world — ideally, for billions of years to come.
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SpaceX will launch Intelsat's next satellite using a re-used Falcon 9 in 2022 Intelsat has tapped SpaceX for the launch of its Intelsat 40e spacecraft, a high-throughput communications satellite that will join the company's existing geostationary network. 7.
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Dubbed the GOLD mission -- for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk -- it will be the first NASA science mission to fly an instrument on a commercial communications satellite when it launches January 25 from French Guiana, the agency said.
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But it's not an unheard-of concept, and in fact we wrote earlier this year about Ubiquitilink (now Lynk), a company that's focused on building a new kind of low Earth orbit communications satellite constellation that can communicate directly with phones.
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As part of SpaceIL's parsimonious approach, Beresheet, which means "Genesis" or "in the beginning" in Hebrew, tagged along aboard the SpaceX rocket with an Indonesian communications satellite as well as a small experimental satellite for the United States Air Force.
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North Korea last conducted a long-range rocket launch in late 2012, successfully putting into orbit an object it claimed was a communications satellite, in what experts saw as part of an effort to build an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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Having overseen the team that had built the first transistor and the first communications satellite, he enjoyed a sterling reputation, so he was asked to take charge of a report on the state of automatic language processing for the National Academy of Sciences.
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SpaceX Fans: This Is Your Super Bowl WeekendOver the last few months, SpaceX has out-SpaceX-ed itself in the best way possible: it's launched …Read more ReadFriday's launch successfully sent a Bulgarian communications satellite into orbit on a used Falcon 9 rocket.
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The United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint-effort commercial launch service provider set up by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, succeeded in launching a U.S. Air Force communications satellite to orbit today, the fifth in a series of launches to form a constellation.
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The smoke plume even grew large enough that it was able to be seen on radar:And onlookers were present to film the aftermath:SpaceX was due to launch an Amos 6 communications satellite for Spacecom of Israel on a Falcon 9 on Saturday.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India launched a communications satellite on Friday for its smaller neighbors to share, part of its efforts to build goodwill in the region and counter Chinese influence, but arch-rival Pakistan said it would stay away from the project.
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SpaceX is launching a Falcon 9 rocket with a huge communications satellite as payload, with launch window opening at 6:53 PM EDT (3:53 PM PDT) today, and SpaceX is now targeting a launch at 93:23 PM EDT (4:23 PM PDT).
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The Intelsat 35e mission today involved launching an orbital communications satellite built by Boeing for SpaceX client Intelsat, which is designed to provide high-throughput network capability for broadband and video applications for a geographic area covering the Caribbean, parts of Europe and Africa.
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As for what's going up on tonight's flight, the Falcon 9 rocket is tasked with lofting a dual-use communications satellite called JCSAT-18/Kacific1 to geostationary orbit — a high path 22,453 miles above the Earth's equator where satellites follow the rotation of the planet.
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Most of the maps show the area around the seventh arc, a curved line in the southern Indian Ocean 600 miles west of Australia at its closest that includes possible aircraft positions based on the distance the plane may have traveled after last pinging a communications satellite.
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The company's next launch of a military communications satellite, MUOS-5, originally slated for May 5, has been delayed indefinitely, pending resolution of a problem that shut down an Atlas rocket first-stage engine 5.5 seconds early during its last flight on March 22, ULA said.
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The rocket's onboard computers halted the countdown about one minute before the newly minted Block-29 edition of the Falcon 9 was set to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its maiden mission, to carry a communications satellite into orbit for Bangladesh.
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Still relatively small vis-a-vis the rest of the ETF space with just over $12 million in assets, its top 10 holdings include communications satellite operators SES and Intelsat, GPS technology company Garmin and radio broadcasting giant Sirius XM. It's up 3.2% since its Apr.
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The launch followed an impressive run of successful paid missions - 20 in all since January 2017, when SpaceX returned to flight following a 2016 launchpad accident that destroyed a $62 million rocket and a $200 million Israeli communications satellite that it was to put into orbit two days later.
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It is an architectural expression of our small place in the universe, while the Earth-shaped Unisphere celebrates the our human conquering of outer space, with rings on the stainless steel globe mapping the paths of astronauts Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn, as well as the first communications satellite.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 accident — which took place while the rocket was stationary on its pad just before a test — destroyed the AMOS-6 communications satellite, a spacecraft that was going to be leased, in part, by Facebook for the social network's initiative aimed at bringing Wi-Fi to the world.
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Wind gusts of up to 25 mph (40 kph) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida forced SpaceX to scrub the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket that was to have put into orbit EchoStar XXIII, a commercial communications satellite for EchoStar Corporation, the privately owned company said on social network Twitter.
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The vehicle already has a few missions lined up: the next Falcon Heavy launch is meant to carry a communications satellite to orbit for Saudi Arabia, and a third flight will carry a bundle of research satellites, including the Planetary Society's experimental LightSail spacecraft — meant to test out a sail that can propel vehicles through space using sunlight.
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Late Sunday night, SpaceX plans to launch a communications satellite into orbit from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, within a four-hour launch window that begins at 11:28 PM ET. The company will also attempt to land the rocket's first stage on one of its drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean.
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But the conviction he had been vigorously contesting, for brokering a deal to help Iran launch its first communications satellite into space on a Russian rocket, almost certainly means he will never again be able to work in the aerospace business: his ambition since his childhood in Iran, when he watched American astronauts walk on the moon.
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So far, the COVID-19 crisis has impacted some launches but not others – SpaceX flew a Starlink mission last week, for instance, but will postpone a planned launch at end of March, while ULA appears to be on track to launch a sixth high-frequency defense communications satellite on behalf of the U.S. Space Force on Thursday.
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EDT (2237 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to deliver a communications satellite into orbit for Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES SA. Musk's SpaceX, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp, made history in December 2015 when it landed an orbital rocket for the first time, a feat it since has repeated seven times.
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The report notes that this is an early-stage secret project that could still be scrapped, but that the purpose of the team and its work is to potentially develop communications satellite technology that can send and receive data directly to user devices, including the iPhone, in a bid to make it possible to connect Apple devices without the need of a third-party network.
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They walked away from the beach club, and in the lee of a hill they saw what looked like a refugee camp, with hundreds of tents and lean-tos and people of many colors and hues—many colors and hues but mostly falling within a band of brown that ranged from dark chocolate to milky tea—and these people were gathered around fires that burned inside upright oil drums and were speaking in a cacophony that was the languages of the world, what one might hear if one were a communications satellite, or a spymaster tapping into a fibre-optic cable under the sea.
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