Science news articles about 'communications satellites'

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. announced Friday that it had successfully launched Japan's first domestically produced commercial communications satellite.

Nigeria's communications satellite has broken down, dashing hopes of digital outreach to rural communities.

A Proton rocket has successfully launched a pair of Russian civil communications satellites.

A Russian Proton rocket launched a new communications satellite on Friday.

A Proton rocket sent an Asian communications satellite on the way to orbit Tuesday.

China successfully launched the Chinasat-9 satellite into orbit Monday.

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's sole communications satellite, used by many of the country's television broadcasters, is out of control due to a computer glitch and is likely to be lost altogether, ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- ?Russia successfully launched six U.S. communications satellites into orbit Thursday, officials said....

... to maximize the safety of the spacecraft that everyone uses daily, like weather and communication satellites." The HEOSS project will demonstrate how a microsatellite could contribute to the Space ...

A crane accident damaged a Malaysian communications satellite at its Baikonur launch site.

A heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket launched two new communications spacecraft Saturday.

The new W2M communications satellite has failed just over a month after launch.

A Land Launch Zenit 3SLB rocket lofted a new communications satellite Thursday.

An Atlas 5 rocket will launch a new military communications satellite late Tuesday.

MOSCOW, May 22 (UPI) -- A Soyuz-2 rocket Friday carried a military communication satellite into orbit from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia, launch officials said.