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Terrier Orion rocket Launch
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Launch season at Poker Flat Research Range is under way. The rocket range, located about 30 miles north of Fairbanks off the Steese Highway, fired its first rocket of the year on Tuesday. The range has an international reputation as a research facility, largely because there are few others like it. T...
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An ILS Proton-M rocket is scheduled to launch the Intelsat 16 communications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 00:39 GMT, 12th February, 2010. The satellite will occupy the 58°West orbital slot, and provide coverage for Mexico and Brazil.
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CBERS-3 Satellite
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Brazil and China will postpone their fourth joint satellite launching from 2010 to mid-2011, a Brazilian official said Wednesday. The two parties held a critical design review meeting a few days ago and decided to reschedule the date for launching the satellite CBERS-3, said Thyrso Villela, dire...
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ANDE-2 satellite
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NRL's ANDE-2 Launches Aboard STS-127 The Naval Research Laboratory's satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), launched aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 15, 2009. The ANDE-2 satellite suite consists of two nearly perfectly spherical micro-satell...
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CaNoRock 1 rocket
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Two University of Alberta students had the opportunity to build and launch a rocket at the Andoya Rocket Range in Norway last week. The course is a pilot project put on by the University of Oslo, and the Institute for Space, Science, Exploration, and Technology. [url=http://thegatewayonline.ca/...
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Kavoshgar 3
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Iran announced Wednesday it has successfully launched a 10-foot-long research rocket carrying a mouse, two turtles and worms into space. The launch of the Kavoshgar-3, which means Explorer-3 in Farsi, was announced by Defence Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as part of Iran's ambitious space program...
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Oersted satellite
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(03 Feb 2010) Nasa is monitoring about 20,000 pieces of space debris that whiz around the Earth, and NASA reported that the Oersted satellite will pass through a cloud of debris from the Russian cosmos 2251 satellite. "We have received a warning from the Americans that the remains of the Russia...
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Private space taxis
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A half century ago the Mercury Seven embodied America's space future. Now it's the merchant seven - space companies for hire. Mimicking a scene 51 years ago when the Mercury astronauts were revealed, NASA's boss beamed Tuesday as he introduced the "faces of a new frontier:" representat...
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Delta IV rocket debris re-entry
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A Delta IV rocket debris that was launched from the Vandenberg Launch Complex on the 4th November 2006, for the DMSP 5D-3 F17 (USA 173) satellite mission is predicted to re-enter on the 3rd February, 2010. TLE Data pre>DELTA4 1 29567U 06050AH 10031.28960945 .09512460 00000-0 49668-1 5478 2 29567...
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Indian communication satellite
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India building spacecraft to enable use of satellite phones India is building a spacecraft for mobile applications that will enable use of satellite phones without dependence on foreign players, a top space scientist said here on Monday. Presently, satellite phones used in India are supported b...
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A Russian Proton M-Briz M rocket is scheduled to launch a Raduga 1M-2 geosynchronous military communications satellite, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on the 28th January, 2010.
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Firefly Mission
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Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes High-energy bursts of gamma rays typically occur far out in space, perhaps near black holes or other high-energy cosmic phenomena. So imagine scientists' surprise in the mid-1990s when they found these powerful gamma ray flashes happenin...
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Eutelsat W2 satellite
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Eutelsat Communications has confirmed a technical anomaly with its W2 satellite at 16 degrees East on Wednesday evening from where some 400 channels are delivered. Read more
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced that the launch of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 14 (H-IIA F14) with the super high-speed Internet satellite "KIZUNA" (Wideband InterNetworking engineering test and Demonstration...
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ELaNA mission
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NASA will launch small research satellites for several universities as part of the agency's Educational Launch of Nanosatellite, or ELaNA, mission. The satellites are manifested as an auxiliary payload on the Taurus XL launch vehicle for NASA's Glory mission, planned for liftoff in late Novemb...
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