https://spacewatch.global/tag/melco-ds-2000-bus/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Mon, 19 Nov 2018 06:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/melco-ds-2000-bus/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/qatars-eshail-2-successfully-launched-by-spacex-falcon-9-slv/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 06:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11395 SpaceX successfully launched the Es’hail-2 satellite for Qatar’s Es’hailsat on Thursday, 15 November 2018, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, United States. Liftoff occurred at 3:46 p.m. EST, or 20:46 UTC, and the satellite was deployed to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) about 32 minutes after launch.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/qatars-eshail-2-to-launch-on-spacex-falcon-9-slv-on-15-november-2018/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11238 Qatar’s Es’hailsat is expected to have its Es’hail-2 communications satellite launched on Thursday, 15 November 2018, on board a SpaceX Falcon-9 satellite launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/06/eshailsats-eshail-2-undergoes-vacuum-chamber-test-japan/ Fri, 10 Jun 2016 07:00:57 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=726 Executives from Qatar’s Es’hailSat and Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Space Systems (MELCO) gathered in Kamakura, outside of Tokyo, Japan, to observe the vacuum chamber test of Es’hail-2. MELCO, who were awarded the contract to build Es’hail-2 in 2014, hosted their Qatari clients on 4 June 2016. Es’hail-2 is based on MELCO’s DS-2000 bus that features highly […]]]>