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Summary: 23 Jan 2012 - 27 Jan 2012
 First Vega rocket assembled on launch pad
27 Jan 2012 - ESA's new Vega rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad. Final preparations are in full swing for the rocket's inaugural flight from Europe's Spaceport. The launch window opens on 9 February. >>>
Two Dnepr launches planned in 2012
27 Jan 2012 - Ukraine and Russia will carry out two rocket launches under the joint Dnepr space programme, head of the National Space Agency of Ukraine Yuri Alekseyev said. >>>
Delay of the day I: Soyuz TMA-04M
27 Jan 2012 - Russia may delay the next manned mission to the International Space Station by several weeks owing to problems with the spaceship's descent vehicle, Interfax news agency quoted an industry source as saying. >>>
Delay of the day II: Proton M/SES-4
27 Jan 2012 - The launch of a Proton M with SES-4 [ex NSS-14] on board, scheduled for 28 January, is being postponed again for technical reasons. >>>
Delta Mariner 'makes contact' with bridge
27 Jan 2012 - The Delta Mariner, owned and operated by Foss Marine, made contact with the Eggner Ferry Bridge over the Tennessee River on 26 January resulting in a portion of the bridge collapsing, United Launch Alliance said in a statement. >>>
Latest Progress vessel launched to ISS
26 Jan 2012 - Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-14M [Progress 46P]; Date: 25 January 2012, 2306 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The vehicle was inserted into a 191 km x 262 km x 51.6 degrees parking orbit. >>>
Intelsat 21 moved to Zenit 3SL
25 Jan 2012 - Sea Launch will launch the Intelsat 21 communications satellite in the third quarter of 2012. The spacecraft will be lofted into an optimised geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) utilising the Sea Launch Zenit 3SL launch system. >>>
ATK completes third Space Act Agreement milestone for Liberty rocket
25 Jan 2012 - ATK's Liberty programme successfully held its Launch System Initial Systems Design (ISD) Review, which completes the third of five milestones in the company's unfunded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA for the Commercial Crew Development Program. >>>
NuSTAR shipped to Vandenberg AFB
25 Jan 2012 - NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, on 24 January to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays from objects ranging from our Ssun to giant black holes billions of light-years away. It is scheduled to launch 14 March from an aircraft operating out of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. >>>
Slot problems further delay Ukraine's Lybid satellite
27 Jan 2012 - Ukraine has once again delayed the launch of its first telecom satellite Lybid until next year, Ukrainian State Space Agency head Yuri Alexeyev was quoted as saying. >>>
SS/L receives new satellite contract
25 Jan 2012 - Space Systems/Loral announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide a high power communications satellite. The company said that further information on the contract award will be released at a later date. >>>
NEC starts design of Hayabusa 2
25 Jan 2012 - NEC Corporation announced the beginning of system design of asteroid explorer for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 Project, a successor to the original Hayabusa asteroid explorer. >>>
Defense Weather Satellite System stops work
25 Jan 2012 - The U.S. Air Force has stopped work on the Defense Weather Satellite System to implement the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act and FY12 Consolidated Appropriations Act. >>>
Chibis-M released
25 Jan 2012 - Russia's Chibis-M microsatellite, which studies gamma-radiation generated by lightning in the atmosphere, separated from the Progress M-13M cargo vessel at 2318 UTC on 24 January. >>>
Thales Alenia Space completes integration of service module for the fourth ATV
25 Jan 2012 - Thales Alenia Space announced that it has completed integration of the fourth ICC (Integrated Cargo Carrier), the service module for the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle), on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). >>>
Lockheed Martin-built GPS satellites reach 150 years of combined service
25 Jan 2012 - The U.S. Air Force's fleet of Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR and IIR-M satellites has accumulated 150 collective years of successful on-orbit operations. >>>
Ball Aerospace-built OMPS instrument onboard NPP satellite returns first data
24 Jan 2012 - Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) onboard the NPP satellite began collecting Earthview image science and solar calibration data on 24 January 2012. >>>
Boeing GPS IIF satellites assembled using 'pulse' manufacturing line
24 Jan 2012 - Boeing said it has accelerated the assembly of its Global Positioning System (GPS IIF) satellites through the use of a pulse-line manufacturing approach adapted from the Boeing 737 airplane production line. >>>
NPP resumes mission checkout phase after VIIRS anomaly
23 Jan 2012 - Since its launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on 28 October 2011, the NPP spacecraft and its five instruments have been undergoing initial checkout before starting regular science observations. Activation and checkout of the full suite of instruments was delayed for several weeks after an anomaly was discovered in the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. >>>
Ball Aerospace reports progress for JPSS-1
23 Jan 2012 - Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. expects to have initiated the procurement of the majority of avionics and electronics components required to build the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft bus by the end of March 2012. >>>
Space debris experts confirm estimate for Fobos-Grunt reentry
25 Jan 2012 - Before the reentry of Russia's Fobos-Grunt Mars probe on 15 January, ESA established a final prediction for reentry of 1745 UTC, referring to an altitude of 10 km. Within the expected uncertainties, the prediction has been largely confirmed by observations. >>>
AIA: satellite export reform critical to U.S. national security, space industry
23 Jan 2012 - The U.S. space industry is losing its competitive edge and risks falling short of future national security requirements unless government reforms our export control system and promotes the international competitiveness of U.S. industry, according to a new report released by the Aerospace Industries Association. >>>
Lockheed Martin Corporation (Space Systems) results 2011
26 Jan 2012 - Lockheed Martin Corporation reported financial results for the fourth quarter 2011. >>>
The Boeing Company (Network & Space Systems) results Q4 2011
25 Jan 2012 - The Boeing Company reported financial results fourth-quarter 2011. >>>
OTE to sell Hellas Sat
24 Jan 2012 - Greek telecommunications company OTE has decided to sell its Hellas Sat division as part of attempts to offset repercussions from Greece's economic crisis. >>>
Shahad al Sarah to operate Globalstar gateway in Saudi Arabia
23 Jan 2012 - Globalstar, Inc., announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Shahad Al Sahra Trading Est. (SAS), for SAS's ownership and operation of a satellite gateway ground station located in Saudi Arabia and the establishment of a Satellite Services Agreement. >>>
Avanti sells Hylas 1 capacity to QSAT
23 Jan 2012 - Avanti Communications Group plc announced the sale of capacity on HYLAS 1 to QSAT of Ireland in a seven-year deal worth a minimum of £9.3 million and up to £13.6 million. >>>
NASA renames Earth-observing mission in honour of satellite pioneer
25 Jan 2012 - NASA has renamed its newest Earth-observing satellite in honour of the late Verner E. Suomi, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin who is recognised widely as "the father of satellite meteorology." >>>
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