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On November 26, 2005, the back-up solar array drive on the Landsat 5 satellite began exhibiting unusual behaviour.
The solar array drive maintains the proper pointing angle between the solar array and the sun. The rotation of the solar array drive became sporadic and the solar array was n...
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Progress M-16M/48P
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NASA Television to Air Upcoming Cargo Ship Launch to Space Station NASA Television will broadcast the launch and for the first time, the same-day rendezvous and docking of a Progress cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Coverage begins at 19:15 UT Wednesday, Aug. 1. [url=ht...
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CZ-3A rocket
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Long March 3A rockets have been launched from Launch Areas 2 and 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. Its maiden flight was on 8 February 1994. Read more
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STS-60
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STS-60 was the first mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried Sergei K. Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a Space Shuttle. The mission used Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on 3 February 1994 from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. R...
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H-2 Launch Vehicle
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The H-II (H2) rocket was a Japanese satellite launch system, which flew seven times between 1994 and 1999, with five successes. Read more
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Explorer 1 Satellite
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Anniversary of Explorer 1 Launch January 31, 1958 The beginning of US space Exploration Read more Explorer-I, officially Satellite 1958 Alpha (and sometimes referred to as Explorer 1), was...
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A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to "lethal trauma" as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts. In a graphic 400-page report, NASA further studied the F...
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5th Anniversary of the end of the Galileo mission The Galileo spacecraft's 14-year odyssey came to an end on Sunday, Sept. 21, when the spacecraft passed into Jupiter's shadow then disintegrated in the planet's dense atmosphere at 11:57 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. [url=http://www2.jpl.nasa.g...
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Apollo 14
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LRO Sees Apollo 14's Rocket Booster Impact Site A distinctive crater about 35 metres in diameter was formed when the Apollo 14 Saturn IVB (upper stage) was intentionally impacted into the moon. The energy of the impact created small tremors that were measured by the seismometer placed on the Moon by...
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Luna 9 mission
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Luna 9 (E-6 series), was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna program. On February 3, 1966 the Luna 9 spacecraft was the first spacecraft to achieve a lunar soft landing and to transmit photographic data to Earth. Read more
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Clementine Lunar Mission
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On January 25, 1994, NASA launched Clementine as the first U.S. spacecraft launched to the Moon in over twenty years (since Explorer 49 in June 1973). Read more
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The Norwegian rocket incident. (1995)
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The Norwegian rocket incident (or Black Brant scare) refers to a few minutes of post-Cold War nuclear tension that took place on January 25, 1995, more than four years after the end of the Cold War. Read more
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Echo II satelloon project
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"History Detectives" Investigate the Case of the Mylar Mystery There is a mystery afoot at Goddard - the case of the mylar mystery to be exact. On January 11, 2010, "History Detective" Tukufu Zuberi, from the PBS show "The History Detectives," came to Goddard to in...
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Super-TIGER mission
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Breaking the Record and a visit to Cosray: January 20-21, 2013 On Sunday morning, Super-TIGER surpassed CREAM I's duration of 41 days, 21 hours and 31 minutes to become the longest Antarctic Long-Duration Balloon flight! We're still about 1/3 of the way through our third time around the continent,...
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Hiten spacecraft
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The Hiten spacecraft (known before launch as Muses-A), built by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan, was launched on January 24, 1990. It was Japan's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by...
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