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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) of Ramat-Gan Israel, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, have signed an agreement for launch of a communication satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 as early as December 2012. Falcon 9 will insert the satellite int...
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Sinnamary spaceport
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Soyuz launches sharp-eyed Pleiades satellite A Russian Soyuz rocket has launched from French Guiana - only the second such vehicle to fly out of the territory's new Sinnamary spaceport. The Soyuz put six satellites in orbit, including France's new Pleiades-1 high-resolution imaging spacecraf...
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GOES-P Spacecraft Being Processed in Florida During the first three weeks in January, the latest in the series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites also known as GOES-P is being processed and prepped for launch. Meanwhile, the first and second stages of the Delta IV rocket that...
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Sometime within the next few weeks NASA Ames Research Centre plans to launch a "nano-sail" as a piggy-back payload on the Falcon launch vehicle a private booster designed and built by Planetary Society Board Member Elon Musk's SpaceX corporation. This small sail, developed by NASAs Ma...
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UK space radar project
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UK space radar project initiated The UK government is to kick-start an innovative project to fly radar satellites around the Earth, with an initial investment of £21m. Radar spacecraft can see the planet's surface in all weathers, day and night. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir...
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Delta II rocket
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The Delta II rocket made its maiden flight, launching the GPS-2A 1 (Navstar 23, USA 66) satellite into orbit on the 26th November, 1990. Delta Launch Vehicle History
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FASTSAT
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NASA has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review of the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, a small, microsatellite class spacecraft bus that will carry six experiment payloads to low-Earth orbit. The pre-shipment review was completed in May,...
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Iranian Rockets
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is planning to manufacture new rockets capable of sending heavier satellites into space. President Ahmadinejad told a gathering of Iranian expatriates on Tuesday that Iran planned to build rockets with a range of 700 to 1500 kilometres to send bigger sate...
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J-2X rocket engine
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NASA's New Upper Stage Engine Passes Major Test NASA conducted a successful 500-second test firing of the J-2X rocket engine on Wednesday, Nov. 9, marking another important step in development of an upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS). [url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqn...
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GUSSTO
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UA team attempts to map Milky Way If they win NASA's $55 million grant, the UA Steward Observatory's GUSSTO mission will map the Milky Way galaxy through its telescope's 1-meter diameter mirror. About 1,000 feet of cable would connect the telescope to a balloon that can expand wider than a football f...
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said that after the success of Chandrayaan 1, India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to launch an exclusive weather satellite jointly with the French space agency CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) in...
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JPL
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The deep, dark roots of JPL Detractors belittled the Suicide Squad because of the trio's fondness for explosives. "Frank Malina was studying aerodynamics at Caltech's Guggenheim Aeronautical laboratory. Jack Parsons was a self-taught chemist, and Ed Forman was an excellent mechanic. Th...
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Chinese launch calendar 2011
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China to launch 25 satellites in 2011 China will have launched 20 rockets and 25 satellites by the end of 2011, an aerospace expert said Sunday. Read more
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SSETI Express Launch
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The launch of the Student Space Education and Technology Initiative (SSETI) Express satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, Russia, has been delayed by 3 days, making 30 September the new tentative launch date.
The launch time will remain the same at 06:52:26 UTC.
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NEEMO 15
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Nasa simulates journey to an asteroid by rigging up giant rock underwater But, in reality, exploring a giant rock in outer space is likely to be somewhat more complicated. For this reason, a Nasa team is simulating a journey to an asteroid by heading underwater. The scientists and engineers are toda...
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