Tag: Argentina
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China moves massive rocket into place for ambitious Mars shot
China’s Long March 5 rocket prepares for rollout from an assembly building to its launch pad July 17 at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island. Credit: Xinhua China’s heaviest rocket has rolled to its launch pad for liftoff Thursday with the country’s first Mars landing mission, an ambitious attempt to place an orbiter…
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China moves massive rocket into place for ambitious Mars shot
China’s Long March 5 rocket prepares for rollout from an assembly building to its launch pad July 17 at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island. Credit: Xinhua China’s heaviest rocket has rolled to its launch pad for liftoff Thursday with the country’s first Mars landing mission, an ambitious attempt to place an orbiter…
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Argentine team returns to Florida to prep radar satellite for late July launch
Team members pose with the SAOCOM 1B radar imaging satellite before it was shipped from Argentina to Cape Canaveral earlier this year. Credit: CONAE A team of 18 Argentine engineers is quarantining in Florida this week after arriving from Buenos Aires, observing coronavirus health restrictions before beginning operations at Cape Canaveral next week to ready…
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Coronavirus concerns force postponement of SpaceX launch with Argentine satellite
Ground crews fold the SAOCOM 1B’s radar antenna before shipment from the satellite’s manufacturing and test facility in Argentina to Cape Canaveral. Credit: CONAE Concerns about the coronavirus pandemic have prompted officials to postpone the planned March 30 launch of Argentina’s SAOCOM 1B radar observation satellite from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket,…
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Argentine smallsats hitch ride with Chinese payloads on Long March rocket
A Long March 2D rocket lifts off from the Taiyuan space base Wednesday with four satellites on-board. Credit: Xinhua Two Earth-imaging microsatellites built and owned by the Argentine company Satellogic launched on a Long March 2D rocket from China Wednesday, sharing a ride into orbit with two Chinese spacecraft. The ÑuSat 7 and 8 satellites…
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Chinese company inks deal to launch 90 commercial smallsats
File photo of the first flight of China’s Long March 6 rocket in 2015. Credit: Chinese Ministry of Defense Satellogic’s recent agreement with a Chinese company to launch 90 commercial Earth observation satellites on five or six dedicated Long March rocket flights marks one of China’s biggest wins in the global launch market. Satellogic has…
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Chinese company inks deal to launch 90 commercial smallsats
File photo of the first flight of China’s Long March 6 rocket in 2015. Credit: Chinese Ministry of Defense Satellogic’s recent agreement with a Chinese company to launch 90 commercial Earth observation satellites on five or six dedicated Long March rocket flights marks one of China’s biggest wins in the global launch market. Satellogic has…
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SpaceX aces first rocket landing in California after launching Argentine satellite
A Falcon 9 rocket launched Sunday night from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, with Argentina’s SAOCOM 1A radar observation satellite. Credit: SpaceX A Falcon 9 rocket launching an Argentine Earth-observing satellite streaked across the skies of Southern California on Sunday night, then its booster stage returned to Vandenberg Air Force Base for an on-target landing,…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches Argentine satellite, lands rocket in California
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with SAOCOM 1A, a radar observation satellite for Argentina. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX’s live video webcast begins around 15 minutes prior to launch, and will be available on this page.
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket, landing pad ready for action at Vandenberg
The Falcon 9 rocket set to launch the SAOCOM 1A satellite stands on its launch pad Sunday. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was raised vertical at Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sunday ahead of a planned liftoff with Argentina’s SAOCOM 1A radar observation satellite, and the…