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MIT engineers and scientist colleagues have a new vision for the future of Mars exploration: a swarm of probes, each the size of a baseball, spreading out across the planet in every direction.
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Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces delivery of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Communication Unit to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in preparation for launch on Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-129. The unit will be delivered by Atla...
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Yinghuo-1 Mission
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China readies its first robotic Mars mission The rapidly ascending Chinese space program is setting its sights on a new target: Mars. China plans to send an orbiter to the Red Planet on a Russian launch vehicle later this year. The nation's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, will piggyback on the ambitiou...
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German TanDEM-X radar satellite now complete In early 2009, Friedrichshafen-based aerospace company Astrium completed construction of the German radar satellite TanDEM-X. This satellite was created in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfa...
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LTU Marvel project
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Marvel -- the Martian airborne research vehicle is a student project carried out in Kiruna, Sweden. The project is hosted by the division of space technology at Luleå University of technology. The objective of this project is to design, bu...
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Dragon spacecraft
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1st Private Rocket Launch to Space Station Delayed The first test flight of a privately built robot space capsule to the International Space Station has been delayed to allow more time to prepare the vehicle, the spacecraft's builder announced today (Jan. 16). [url=http://www.oddonion.com/20...
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Planetary Lake Lander project
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Dawn at Laguna Negra A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) project is led by Principal Investigator Nathalie Cabrol of the NASA Ames Research C...
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A researcher from The University of Western Ontario has helped solve a 37-year-old space mystery using lunar images released yesterday by NASA and maps from his own atlas of the moon. Phil Stooke, a professor cross-appointed to Western's Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Geography, pub...
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Project Aquila balloon
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Students launch balloon to view the edge of space Twenty-eight members of the Astronomy Club at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland worked for several months to prepare a giant latex weather balloon bearing a box of cameras and data-collecting equipment. They sent the probe aloft las...
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C-5 rocket
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On January 10, 1962, NASA announced plans to build the C-5. The three-stage rocket would consist of five F-1 engines for the first stage, five J-2 engines for the second stage, and a single, additional J-2 engine for the third stage. The C-5 was designed for the higher payload capacity necessary for a...
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Vyomanauts
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The hunt for India's first astronauts - 'vyomanauts' in a desi tweak - has begun. Two of the four selected vyomanauts (vyoma means 'space' or 'sky' in Sanskrit) will finally go on India's first manned space mission scheduled to lift off in 2015. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is layin...
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Orbcomm Generation 2 Satellites
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Orbcomm And SpaceX Reach Deal To Launch 18 Orbcomm Generation 2 Satellites ORBCOMM Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announce they have reached an agreement for SpaceX to launch 18 ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites to begin as early as the fourth quarter of 2010 through 2...
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R-30 Bulava Test
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A test launch of a R-30 Bulava (SS-NX-30) ballistic missile from a submerged Typhoon-class submarine, the Dmitry Donskoi, in the White Sea has failed.
"A special commission will conduct a detailed investigation into the cause of the incident to eliminate it during further stages of the te...
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ELISA satellites
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Arianespace to launch ELISA satellites Astrium has selected Arianespace to launch four satellites of the space segment of the ELISA demonstrator. The four ELISA satellites will be placed in heliosynchronous orbit by a Soyuz rocket to be launched from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Gui...
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Luch 5A and Luch 5B
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