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Thor 6 built by Thales Alenia Space was launched from the Guiana Spaceport on 29 October 2009. [8] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting announced on 15 December that Thor 6 had completed all necessary in-orbit and ground-related testing and would commence commercial service in late December. Thor 6 has 36 K u band transponders. It provides direct-to ...
The final half-decade of launches in the Thor/Delta family consisted of one Delta IV Heavy each year from 2020 through 2024. This followed the retirement of Delta II in 2018 and single-stick (non-Heavy) variants of the Delta IV in 2019.
Magnetospheric research satellite HEO to Sun-Earth L1 halo orbit Eventually shifted to heliocentric: Success First satellite to use Lagrangian point and halo orbit Later re-classified as the International Cometary Explorer. Satellite still operational as of 2014. [4] 1978-10-24 08:14 Delta 2910: Delta 145 Thor 630 VAFB SLC-2W Nimbus 7 / CAMEO
A satellite called S73-7 that had been missing since the 1990s mysteriously turned up again this week, raising the question of how the Department of Defense lost the interstellar probe in the ...
The world's first passive communications satellite, Echo 1A, and first active communications satellite, Telstar 1, which enabled transatlantic television transmission, were launched by Thor-Deltas ...
A weather satellite that acts as a bridge between POES satellites and the Joint Polar Satellite System. The satellite measures climate data. The launch also included the secondary payload ELaNa III, 5 CubeSats that are part of the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites NASA program.
The Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it has issued its first space debris enforcement fine, of $150,000 for DISH which failed to properly de-orbit its EchoStar-7 satellite. The ...
Intelsat 10-02 (or IS 10-02, Intelsat 1002, IS-1002, Intelsat Alpha-2, Intelsat X-02 and Thor 10-02 [1]) is a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. [4] Intelsat 10-02 is the first operational communications satellite to have its service life extended by Mission Extension Vehicle-2 , while still in service, in 2021.