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Israel Space Agency
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An Israeli has yet to moonwalk - and the country's only astronaut Ilan Ramon perished on a tragic NASA mission in 2003 - but Israel has big ambitions to jump into the billion-dollar space industry. One of only eight nations in the world to launch an indigenous satellite into space, Israel's governmen...
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Scotland Stardust project
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Strathclyde takes the lead in space research Academics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow are set to investigate the removal of space debris and deflection of asteroids - leading the first research-based training network of its kind in the world. The 'Stardust' project will train the nex...
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NASA has announced they have chosen the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, US, to develop and operate two satellites for the agency's Radiation Belt Storm Probe, to be launched in 2012.
The mission, part of NASA's Living With a Star Program, will investigate the in...
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Phobos-Grunt is a planned Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. It will be the first Russian interplanetary mission since the failed Mars 96 mission.
Its name is derived from two simple characteristics of the mission. "Grunt" is in reference to 'ground' (of whic...
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According to Chinese state media, a lunar satellite will transmit 30 pieces of Chinese music to Earth next year.
The satellite, which has a budget of 1.4-billion yuan, is part of China's three-phase lunar project, and is designed to obtain three-dimensional images of the moon's surface and an...
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Space shuttle Atlantis
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Atlantis Moves to New Home Highlights of NASA Television coverage of events surrounding space shuttle Atlantis' move to the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex in Florida for permanent public display.
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Oceansat-2 Satellite
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Oceansat-2 will be ready for launch by the end of the current year. The new satellite will replace Oceansat-1, launched in 1998, for studying physical and biological aspects of the country's ocean resources. The new satellite will help identification of potential fishing zones, support sea...
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Shenzhou VIII
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China plans to launch its third manned space mission in October during which the country's astronauts are to undertake their first ever space walk, the state media reported today. Three astronauts aboard the spacecraft Shenzhou VIII are expected to attempt Chinas first space walk during the upco...
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Fly Your Thesis
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Four teams of postgraduate students have been selected to fly their experiments during a new ESA programme called 'Fly Your Thesis!'. This exciting programme, launched by the ESA Education Office in 2008, offers a rare opportunity for students to design, build, and eventually fly, a scientific...
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Explorer-1 Prime
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A satellite made by Montana State University students to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. satellite has moved another step closer to space. MSU's satellite, called "Explorer-1 Prime," was one of three recommended to fly on a NASA rocket, MSU scientists announced thi...
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30 Venezuelan scientists are going to China to begin work on Venezuela's first satellite - the first step on the way to a national space programme.
President Hugo Chavez has earmarked around £287million to get the space agency off the ground in 2007.
The scientists will be joined by another 60 ne...
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HELP balloon
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HELP students aim to study solar eclipse The Astronomer's Society of HELP University is determined to launch its first helium balloon 33km into Earth's stratosphere on Nov 14, the day on which a solar eclipse is expected. This distance is almost as high as the one Felix Baumgartner jumped from earli...
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Venera 10 mission
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Venera 10 was a USSR unmanned space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It launched on June 14, 1975 03:00:31 UTC. Read more
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High Altitude Student Platform
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NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon. The annual NASA project provides near space access for 12 undergraduate and graduate student experiments to be carried by a N...
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Mariner 5 mission
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Mariner 5 (Mariner Venus '67) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above t...
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