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Prime Ministers of Russia and Kazakhstan on Thursday discussed further bilateral steps in the field of space research and orbital activity, including the KazSat-2 satellite project, Kazakhstani Prime Minister Karim Massimov said upon the completion of inter-governmental talks. The case in h...
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Agni-I missile
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New launch test of Indian nuclear capable missile successful. India carried out on Friday a successful test launch of a Agni-I ballistic missile with nuclear capability. The Agni-I missile has a range of 700 kilometres was launched from Wheeler island, to a target area 180 km in the North-East of Bh...
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STS121 launch
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The STS-121 launch window has been adjusted from 9 September until 22 September 2005, resulting in a 4 day window launch instead of one which was originally three weeks long.
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'Spirit of Freedom' balloon
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In 2002, Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone, nonstop, in any kind of aircraft. He launched the 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom from Northam, Western Australia, on June 19, 2002 and returned to Australia on July 3, 2002, subsequently landing in Queensland. Du...
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Soyuz 11
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Soyuz 11, launched on the 6th June, 1971, was the first successful visit to the world's first space station, Salyut 1. However the mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule depressurised during preparations for re-entry, killing the three-man crew Read more
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STS-71
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STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first Space Shuttle docking to Mir, a Russian space station. The mission used Space Shuttle Atlantis, which lifted off from launch pad 39A on June 27, 1995 from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida.[/quote...
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Spektr-R (Radioastron) satellite
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Russia is to launch a special satellite this year in search for extraterrestrial civilisations in remote galaxies.
The Spektr R (Spectrum-Roentgen) x-ray satellite to be launched later this will carry a 20-metre antenna for the study of galaxies and extraterrestrial civilisations.
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André Kuipers
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Kuipers to make second trip into space[url=http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/08/kuipers_to_make_second_trip_in.ph...
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Rocket Engines
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Purdue University engineers are conducting research to help NASA develop rockets faster and less expensively for future missions to Mars and the moon.
The NASA-funded research at Purdue focuses on liquid-fuelled rockets. Specifically, the work deals with understanding how fuel and a compon...
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Helios Prototype
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NASA's Helios Prototype was an evolutionary series of solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. On June 26, 2003, the Helios Prototype broke up and fell into the Pacific Ocean about ten miles (16 km) west of the Hawaiian Island Kauai during a remotely piloted systems checkou...
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STS 51-G
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STS 51-G was the eighteenth flight of a space shuttle, and the fifth flight of Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 17 June 1985. Sultan Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia was on board as a payload specialist. All the experiments were successfully accomplished. Disco...
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Expose-E experiment unit
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Space is a hostile environment for living things, but small organisms on the Expose-E experiment unit outside Europes Columbus ISS laboratory module have resisted the solar UV radiation, cosmic rays, vacuum and varying temperatures for 18 months. A certain lichen, Xanthoria elegans, seems to b...
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ATV orbital freighter
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US and Europe plan new spaceship Europe and the US could be building a spaceship together later this decade. It is one of the ideas being considered as Europe ponders the next evolution of its ATV orbital freighter. The sophisticated robotic vessel is used to transport up to 7.5 tonnes of supplies to t...
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The White Knight
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The White Knight has a new mission.
The White Knight mothership has been fitted up with the X-37, an unpiloted, reusable space plane.
At its inland spaceport in Mojave, California, the plane has undergone a set of recent ground evaluations, including high-speed taxi tests.
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Jason-2 satellite
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the French Space Agency (CNES, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) for loading JAXA space environment measurement equipment on the Jason-2 satellite of the CNES.
The signing ceremony took p...
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