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TubeSat
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TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit The new Interorbital's TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. It has three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a CubeSat, but still offers plenty of room for most experiments or functions. And, best of all, the pric...
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Lacrosse 2 spysat
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Eager to take a look at a super-secret U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite? Now you can thumb through a sourcebook on a Russian satellite tracking facility in Siberia called the Altay Optical Laser Research Centre. Allan Thomson, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst pre...
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Falcon 9-Heavy rocket
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SpaceX to launch huge new rocket The Californian SpaceX company says it plans to launch the most powerful rocket since the Apollo era next year. The Falcon 9-Heavy is a beefed up version of the vehicle the firm will soon use to send a robotic cargo ship to the space station. The new rocket should be capab...
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SeaWiFS satellite
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Earth-orbiting SeaWiFS satellite. SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing WIde Field-of-view Sensor instrument) was launched Aug. 1, 1997, and shortly thereafter took its first measurements of ocean colour. A decad...
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ExploreNEOs III
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Title: ExploreNEOs. III. Physical Characterisation of 65 Potential Spacecraft Target Asteroids Authors: Mueller, Michael; Delbo', M.; Hora, J. L.; Trilling, D. E.; Bhattacharya, B.; Bottke, W. F.; Chesley, S.; Emery, J. P.; Fazio, G.; Harris, A. W.; Mainzer, A.; Mommert, M.; Penprase, B.; Smi...
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High Altitude Launch Opportunity
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High-altitude balloon launch is Bloomington's first Members of the Atmospheric Science Program at IU Bloomington have invited scientists from Taylor University to perform the first high-altitude balloon release in Bloomington history, its overseers believe. The launch is planned for Wedne...
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Arianespace to launch HYLAS Avanti Communications Group plc, has chosen Arianespace to launch the HYLAS telecommunications satellite. This new contract is the 11th signed by Arianespace with the major satellite operators. The launch of the HYLAS (Highly Adaptable Satellite) satellite is pla...
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Lebanese space program
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Let me take you back to 1960. It is three years after the launch of Sputnik 1 and Manoug Manougian is a young mathematics and physics lecturer at Haigazian College in Beirut, Lebanon, with a fascination for rocketry. At a time when the global focus was on space exploration, 25-year-old Manougian deci...
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DARWIN Mission
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Title: DARWIN - A Mission to Detect, and Search for Life on, Extrasolar Planets Authors: C. S. ****ell, A. Leger, M. Fridlund, T. Herbst, L. Kaltenegger, O. Absil, C. Beichman, W. Benz, M. Blanc, A. Brack, A. Chelli, L. Colangeli, H. Cottin, V. Coude du Foresto, W. Danchi, D. Defrere, J.-W. den Herder...
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Prithvi missile
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India has successfully test-fired a medium-range Prithvi nuclear-capable from the Chandipur test range in the state of Orissa
The missile with a range of up to 300 kilometres, fell into the Bay of Bengal.
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GPS network
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GPS glitch hit some military systems in January The Air Force says a software glitch in its GPS network in January temporarily left some defence systems unable to lock onto locator signals from satellites, but the problem has since been fixed. The Air Force Global Positioning Wing said Friday one pr...
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European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service
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Press conference on EGNOS and Galileo Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency, is to meet Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in Paris on Friday 4 March. They will cover various subjects relati...
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SLICE experiment
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When NASA's space shuttle Discovery is launched this Thursday after a three-month delay, it will send the work of Yale applied physics professors Marshall Long and Mitchell Smooke soaring to new heights. Long and Smooke are endeavouring to improve safety in space stations as well as discover more...
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DubaiSat-2
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Jules Verne, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), will be launched next year by a specific version of Ariane 5 called the Ariane 5 Evolution Storable upper stage Automated Transfer Vehicle, or A5 ES-ATV for short.
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