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[Via Satellite 05-27-2014] The co-launch of the MEASAT 3B satellite and Optus Networks’ Optus 10 satellite, originally scheduled for June 6, 2014, has been postponed due to repairs requested for Optus 10. Both payloads are scheduled to launch on Arianespace’s Ariane 5 launch vehicle. A new launch date will be announced as soon as possible.

[Via Satellite 05-23-2014] Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services has set the launch date for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 3 remote sensing satellite for Aug. 13 2014. The spacecraft will launch aboard an Atlas 5 from Space Launch Complex 3E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Lockheed Martin exclusively conducts all non-U.S. government launches of the Atlas 5....

[Via Satellite 05-20-2014] According to the newly released report by Northern Sky Research (NRS) “Satellite Manufacturing and Launch Services (SMLS), Fourth Edition,” the satellite industry ordered and launched more than 100 satellites in the past year. The total revenue generated by the industry globally in 2013 was almost $35 billion, according to NSR. The company...

[Via Satellite 05-19-2014] The most recent Boeing-built Global Positioning System (GPS) 2F satellite sent its first signals from space following its launch on Friday, May 16, 2014. This marks the halfway point of the 12 launches scheduled by the United States Air Force for the GPS 2F constellation. The satellite was launched at 8:03 p.m....

[Via Satellite 05-16-2014] The Russian Proton M rocket suffered an unspecified failure during the third stage of the launch for Airbus Defence and Space’s Express AM4R satellite. The failure occurred nine minutes after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, May 16 2014 at 1:42 a.m. local time. The failure was at an...

[Via Satellite 05-14-2014] Sky Perfect JSAT has agreed to use Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H2A launch vehicle for the first time to launch a satellite in 2016 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The H2A rocket is the core launch vehicle for Japan and has successfully carried out 22 out of 23 launches to date....

[Via Satellite 05-13-2014] The United States Court of Federal Claims has dissolved a ban on Russian-built RD-180 engines manufactured by NPO Energomash. The ban was prompted by a preliminary injunction filed by SpaceX against the U.S. Air Force’s block buy of rocket cores from United Launch Alliance (ULA). The Atlas 5, built by ULA, is...

[Via Satellite 05-08-2014] Spaceflight Inc., a company dedicated to launching small satellites, has nearly filled all the slots for the maiden flight of its Sherpa hosted payload and in-space transportation system. Sherpa is a free-flying platform that uses an oversized Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) ring exclusively for small satellites ranging...

[Via Satellite 05-01-2014] The United States Court of Federal Claims has restricted the joint Boeing–Lockheed Martin launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) from purchasing RD-180 engines manufactured by Russia’s NPO Energomash. The decision comes after an April 28, 2014 filing by SpaceX stating that the U.S Air Force has entered into an “unlawful contract” by creating a...

[Via Satellite 05-01-2014] Arianespace signed a contract with Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) for the launch of the bank’s first satellite, BRIsat. The contract ceremony took place in Jakarta, Indonesia. Jacques Breton, SVP of sales and customers at Arianespace, stepped in to sign the contract on behalf of Stéphane Israël, chairman and CEO of Arianespace, who...