PUSHED BACK: SpaceX says it will not make the April 30 target for launching its first Falcon 9/Dragon cargo mission to the International Space Station. “After reviewing our recent progress, it was clear that we needed more time to finish hardware-in-the-loop testing and properly review and follow up on all data,” the company says. “While it is still possible that we could launch on May 3rd, it would be wise to add a few more days of margin in case things take longer than expected.

India says it has no plans to wind up the three-decade-old Agni program and will continue to develop more missiles in the series.

India is set to launch a rocket carrying the indigenously built Radar Imaging Satellite on April 26, according to a senior official of the ISRO.

SEA LAUNCH: Sea Launch has received Intelsat 19 from Space Systems/Loral at its home port in Long Beach, Calif. Sea Launch will use a Zenit-3SL to launch the satellite in May from the company’s Odyssey platform in the western Pacific. The satellite is to be placed into a geostationary parking orbit at 166 deg. E. long. and replace Intelsat 8. It will provide video services across the Asia-Pacific region.

ESA’s Envisat spacecraft remains stable in orbit after unexpectedly ceasing communication with ground stations April 8.

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HOUSTON — Russia’s 47 Progress supply ship sped toward an April 22 docking with the International Space Station (ISS) following a flawless liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, to initiate a two-day transit. The Russian freighter and its nearly three tons of propellant, water, compressed air and other supplies was on course to dock with the ISS’s Russian segment Pirs module at 10:40 a.m. EDT.

COLORADO SPRINGS — Orbital Sciences Corp. has installed its Antares medium-lift launch vehicle on the pad built for it at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, in preparation for a hot-fire test of the new rocket later this spring.