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NASA has given the green light to a project to put a long-armed lander on to the icy ground of the far-northern Martian plains. The Phoenix lander is designed to examine the site for potential habitats for water ice, and to look for possible indicators of life, past or present.
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As the National Reconnaissance Offices (NRO) Future Intelligence Architecture (FIA) continues on its ponderous and costly path, the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) program is building and launching a set of small, relatively inexpensive, and technically innovative satellites that co...
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ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has just completed its last phase of testing in Europe and is ready to be shipped to its launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
One and a half years after its sister spacecraft Mars Express arrived at Mars, Europe’s newest planetary probe is...
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Alphasat I-XL mission
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British engineers have been asked to build the payload for what will become one of the biggest commercial telecoms satellites ever launched. London-based Inmarsat signed a contract on Friday with industrialists to construct the Alphasat I-XL mission. The six-tonne satellite will deliver high...
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AzerSat 1 satellite
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Ukraine's Zenit rocket may launch first Azeri communications satellite The Dnipropetrovsk-based Pivdenne Design Bureau has submitted an application to enter its Zenit rocket in a tender conducted by Azerbaijan's Communications Ministry to place the country's first communications satelli...
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Yaogan 1
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BARREL
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A new NASA project will use more than 40 high altitude balloons to return new scientific insights about Earth's Van Allen Belts. The type of radiation in the belts can be hazardous to astronauts, orbiting satellites and aircraft flying in high altitude polar routes. NASA's Science Mission Directo...
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Orbital Sciences Corporation today announced that the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Centre (SMC) recently ordered the first Minotaur V launch vehicle under the companys Orbital/Suborbital Program-2 (OSP-2) contract. The Minotaur V rocket will propel NASAs Lunar Atmosphere and Dus...
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Wideband Gapfiller satellite 2
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WGS-2 F-2 Atlas 5 Launch The Wideband Gapfiller satellites will provide near-term continuation and augmentation of the services currently provided by the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) and the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Ka services currently provided by GBS payloads on U...
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NASA says the Mars Reconnaissance orbiter set to launch next month will study the planet in unprecedented detail, providing more data than all previous missions combined.
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Vega 1 space probe
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On this day in 1986, the Soviet Vega 1 space probe returned the first images of the nucleus of Comet Halley. Vega 1 made its closest approach on March 6 at around 8,889 kilometres (at 07:20:06 UT) of the nucleus. It took more than 500 pictures via different filters as it flew through the gas cloud around t...
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Mir space station
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The Mir space station was launched on the 19th February, 1986 at 21:28:23 UTC Mir was a Soviet and later Russian space station. It was the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, and the first of the third generation type of space station, constructed from 1986 t...
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Turksat 4A and Turksat 5A
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Turkey's satellite operator Turksat said on Wednesday that it plans to launch two satellites, Turksat 4A and Turksat 5A, in six years, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. Turksat has started work for a new satellite dubbed Turksat 4A which is planned to cover north and central Africa...
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Venera 1 spacecraft
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On May 19,1961, the Venera 1 spacecraft passed within 100,000 km of the planet Venus. On February 12, 1961, 00:34:36 UTC, the first planetary probe was launched to Venus by the Soviet Union. The Venus-1 Automatic Interplanetary Station, or Venera 1, was a 643.5 kg probe consisting of a cylindrical b...
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