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Nigerian space programme
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Nigeria's space race Nigeria is running one of Africa's biggest space programmes. The hope is the satellite-based project will help manage agricultural production, but not everyone is convinced of the benefits. Read more
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Lunar Lion
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Without textbooks, blueprints, or even a template to follow, Penn State students are working side-by-side with faculty in a rare opportunity to build a robotic spacecraft - the Lunar Lion - that will land on the moon and return high-resolution images, video footage and scientific data. [url=htt...
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Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
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Twenty years ago this week, the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope was launched into space aboard NASA's space shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., as part of the 12-day Astro-1 astronomy mission. The telescope was conceived, designed and built by Johns Hopkins Uni...
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Radioastron
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The Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has announced plans to launch the Radioastron astrophysical laboratory for observing extra-galactic objects in 2007.
Radioastron will make it possible to study highly massive black holes inside remote and neighbouring galaxies' nucle...
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ESA’s Planck satellite builds on Nobel-prize-winning science
The 2006 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot for their work on NASA’s 1989 Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite. In 200...
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EchoStar XIV Satellite
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and the world's leading provider of high-power commercial satellites, today announced that it has been awarded a contract to manufacture a new direct broadcast satellite (DBS) for EchoStar Orbital Corporatio...
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Arianespace
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Arianespace to launch the first ten satellites in the Galileo constellation Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and René Oosterlinck, Director of the Galileo Program and Navigation-related Activities at the European Space Agency (ESA), today signed the launch contract for the...
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SARAL-AltiKa mission
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency have called for research proposals on the data to be generated from AltiKA, a payload in Satellite with ARgos and AltiKa (SARAL). [url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sci...
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Giotto mission
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Giotto was a European robotic spacecraft mission from the European Space Agency, intended to fly by and study Halley's Comet. On 13 March 1986, the mission succeeded in approaching Halley's nucleus at a distance of 596 kilometres. The spacecraft was named after the medieval Italian painter Giott...
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Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat)
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Tiny Canadian satellite to hunt for asteroids that could hit Earth[url=http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id...
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Following confirmation from Eurockot Launch Services that they will launch ESA's SMOS mission on 9 September this year, the satellite has just been taken out of storage - providing an opportunity for the media to view the satellite before it is prepared for shipment to the launch site in Russia. The...
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The Glory satellite is a planned NASA satellite mission that will collect data on the chemical, micro-physical and optical properties -- and the spatial and temporal distributions -- of aerosols, and will collect solar irradiance data for the long-term climate record. [url=http://en.wikiped...
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Vanguard 2 satellite
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1959: Vanguard 2 (NASA) Click to Play | View Details
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IKONOS 2 Satellite
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Lockheed Martin-Built IKONOS Satellite Marks 10 Years In Operations The world's first commercial, high-resolution, Earth imaging satellite, IKONOS, will achieve its 10th year of operation on Sept. 24. Built by Lockheed Martin, the satellite continues to provide high-resolution imagery of t...
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Yamal-402 satellite
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Arianespace has been chosen to launch the two communications satellites, Yamal-401 and Yamal-402 within the scope of a contract between Thales Alenia Space and Russian operator Gazprom. The launch contract was signed yesterday in Moscow, following the contract signed by Thales Alenia Space an...
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