Thales Alenia Space Gets Bad News, Good News
Indonesia’s Palapa D telecommunications satellite, built by the European company Thales Alenia Space, failed to reach the correct orbit after being launched by a Chinese Long March 3B rocket today, according to China Daily. The failure is being investigated.
Thales Alenia Space is getting some better news today, however. The space shuttle Discovery successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) last night and the STS-128 and ISS crews are now attaching the Leonardo MPLM (Multi-Purpose Logistics Module) to one of the ISS nodes. Leonardo also was built by Thales Alenia Space. It is carrying scientific experiment racks, the COLBERT treadmill and other equipment and supplies.
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