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India and the United States are finalising the formalities to incorporate a US payload in India's first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayan-1.
Both the countries have to sign a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the US Natio...
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DMSP-18 Satellite Launch
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International Launch Services (ILS), a Lockheed Martin joint venture, has received authorisation from the U.S. Air Force to proceed with the launch of a military weather satellite on an Atlas V vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, US.
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Luna 15 mission
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Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans A previously unheard recording of a Russian spacecraft attempting to beat NASA's Apollo 11 in 1969's race to the moon has been released. In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans...
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UoSat-OSCAR 9
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UO-9 (aka UoSAT-OSCAR 9, or the University of Surrey's UoSAT-1) was an amateur satellite built at the University of Surrey and launched into low Earth orbit on 6 October 1981. It exceeded its anticipated two-year orbital lifespan by six years, being received on 13 October 1989 before re-entering t...
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Arabsat 5C satellite
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Arianespace to launch two satellites for Arabsat Saudi-Arabia based operator Arabsat selects Arianespace to launch the Arabsat 5C and Arabsat 6B satellites. The Arabsat 5C satellite is scheduled for a launch into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) from the third quarter of 2011. It will be lau...
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Cosmic Vision programme
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Europe's scientists have presented the six dream space missions they would like to fly before 2020. The concepts ranged from a quest to map the "dark" components shaping the cosmos, to a plan to find far-off planets that most resemble Earth. The European Space Agency (Esa) will probably...
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NASAs experiment to test two predictions of Albert Einstein, continues to perform well. All four gyroscopes - the ultra-precise spheres that will be used to test Einstein's general theory of relativity - are running at full...
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QuetzSat-1 Satellite
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ILS International Launch Services (ILS) and SES today announced the execution of an agreement for the launch of QuetzSat-1 on an ILS Proton in 2011. QuetzSat-1 is under construction by Space Systems/Loral on behalf of SES Satellite Leasing Limited in the Isle of Man. QuetzSat-1, built by Space Sy...
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Explorer Missions
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NASA Selects Science Investigations For Concept Studies NASA has selected 11 science proposals, including one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions to study the Earth's atmosphere, the sun, the Mi...
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Technology Demonstration Missions
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NASA Media Telecon To Announce Technology Demonstration Missions NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 22, to announce proposals selected in the agency's Technology Demonstration Mission program. These crosscutting technology demonstrations were selected bec...
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ERS-2 satellite
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ESA satellites flying in formation Based on the outstanding success of the first tandem mission between ERS-2 and Envisat last year, ESA has paired the two satellites together again to help improve our understanding of the planet. ERS-2, ESAs veteran spacecraft, and Envisat, the largest enviro...
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NigeriaSat-2
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The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is testing two disaster-monitoring satellites at its Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. The NigeriaSat-2 and NX satellites are owned by the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) and will be used to monitor di...
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TacSat-4 Satellite
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Naval Research Laboratory engineers have completed all environmental and performance testing on the TacSat-4 COMMx payload. This completes the entire TacSat-4 spacecraft as the spacecraft bus was completed in May 2008. The launch date was fall 2009, however it was moved to August 2010 because o...
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SpaceX Falcon 1 Flight 004
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As mentioned in my update last month, we do expect to conduct a launch countdown in late September as scheduled. Having said that, it is still possible that we encounter an issue that needs to be investigated, which would delay launch until the next available window in late October. If preparations g...
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Low-energy orbits
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Title: A numerical and statistical analysis of low-energy transfer orbits to the Moon Authors: Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Marco Giancotti We present a study of a class of Earth-Moon transfer trajectories, called low-energy orbits, that only require small velocity impulses to inject a probe in...
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