INTELSAT 23: Intelsat and launch provider International Launch Services are preparing for the launch of the Intelsat 23 satellite aboard a Proton M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 14 at 2:37 p.m. local time. Separation of the satellite is scheduled for approximately 9 hr. and 30 min. after liftoff. Intelsat 23 is scheduled to start service at 307 deg. East longitude in 2012, replacing the Intelsat 707 satel­lite.

A significant short on Sept. 1 prompted a shutdown of the 3A solar power channel

USAF is reviewing 'unexpected data signature' emitted during the Oct. 8 launch of Boeing ’s GPS IIF-3 satellite

HOUSTON — SpaceX is sorting through a first-stage Falcon 9 engine anomaly that occurred when the two-stage booster lifted off for the International Space Station on Oct. 7 under a $1.6 billion NASA Commercial Resupply Services contract that signals the restoration of U.S. cargo delivery and return capabilities lost with the space shuttle’s 2011 retirement.

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) CEO Elon Musk sounded a note of caution about the company’s upcoming first operational cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station, during an online question-and-answer session Oct. 5.

Today, each GPS satellite is launched from a single Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle

HOUSTON — The U.S.-led International Space Station mission management team on Oct. 4 approved the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon on a three-week resupply mission to the orbiting science lab, the first delivery carried out under the terms of the company’s $1.6 billion, 12-flight Commercial Re-Supply (CRS) contract awarded in late 2008.

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