The Land Launch Zenit-3SLB system has successfully inserted the MEASAT-3a communications satellite (formerly MEASAT-1R) into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, at the end of a mission originating from the Zenit launch site at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.

Boeing [NYSE: BA] engineers and technicians recently completed several complex payload-processing tasks - including preparing the final two science platforms for Japan's Kibo laboratory - ahead of Space Shuttle Endeavour's upcoming mission to the International Space Station.