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.

AEHF LAUNCH: The second Lockheed Martin Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite is set to be launched by an Atlas V rocket on May 3 with a backup window of May 5, only days after the scheduled April 30 launch of Space Exploration Technologies’ Falcon 9, both from Cape Canaveral. Operational testing of the spacecraft is set for next year. One of the first two AEHF satellites will eventually be placed in geosynchronous orbit over Europe for Washington to fulfill its agreement to share some of the capacity with the U.K., Canada and the Netherlands.

Evaluators of Commercial Crew Integrated Capability have a choice of techniques for returning astronauts to Earth.

A repairable fault with a piece of electronics onboard the Space-Based Space Surveillance satellite is prompting Air Force Space Command to hold off on declaring initial operational capability.