Next week's SpaceX launch postponed / Atlas 5 launch moves up

  NEWSALERT: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 1200 GMT
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MORE SOFTWARE REVIEWS DELAY SPACEX DEMO FLIGHT
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Launch of SpaceX's commercial Dragon cargo freighter to the International
Space Station will be delayed until at least early May to give engineers
more time to wring out the craft's software, the company announced Monday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/003/120423delay/


ATLAS 5 TOPPED WITH ANTI-JAM COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE
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A gleaming new spacecraft valued at over $1 billion to serve in the
top-notch mission of providing the president and military leaders a secure
and survivable communications link in wartime was mounted atop its Atlas 5
rocket at Cape Canaveral Monday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av031/120423payload/


COMMERCIAL PROTON ROCKET DEPLOYS YAHSAT INTO ORBIT
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The Russian Proton rocket carrying a Middle Eastern spacecraft for
high-data-rate communications launched Monday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan at 6:18 p.m. EDT (2218 GMT). It took 9 hours to put the
satellite into the proper orbit by the Breeze M upper stage.

http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/y1b/status.html


ENTERPRISE FERRYFLIGHT TARGETED FOR WEDNESDAY
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If the weather cooperates as forecasters expect, the space shuttle
Enterprise will take her piggyback ferryflight ride from Dulles
International Airport outside the nation's capital to the John F. Kennedy
International Airport in New York City on Wednesday morning.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/ferry/status.html


SPACE STATION WELCOMES RUSSIAN CARGO SHIP ARRIVAL
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The International Space Station received a cargo freighter Sunday when the
Russian-made vessel loaded with three tons of supplies safely approached
and docked on autopilot.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp30/120422prog47pdock/


ESA CONSULTS IMAGERY TO DIAGNOSE ENVISAT ANOMALY
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Engineers are analyzing satellite and ground imagery of the European Space
Agency's Envisat environmental spacecraft to determine if the $3.4 billion
mission can resume after controllers lost contact with the platform April
8.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1204/21envisat/


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