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Sounding rockets
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Arctic rocket launching opportunity Four lucky undergraduate students will get the chance to launch a research rocket from an Arctic island in Norway this November, but interested candidates will have to first explain why in a short essay that forms part of a selection process that began in August...
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Third Optus D-series satellite
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Optus announced today it would further expand its satellite fleet providing services to Australia and New Zealand by launching the third D-series satellite. The new satellite will increase Optus' fleet capacity by more than 30 percent. Paul O'Sullivan, Chief Executive of Optus, said the deal sh...
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JCSAT-12 satellite
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Japanese operator JSAT Corporation has chosen Arianespace to launch its JCSAT-12 communications satellite. Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Kiyoshi Isozaki, President and CEO of JSAT Corporation, signed today in Bangkok the launch Service & Solutions contract for...
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South Korean scientists unveiled the mock-up of a rocket designed to send a domestically produced research satellite into orbit next year from the country's spaceport in Goheung, South Jeolla Province. A successful launch from the Naro Space Centre would make Korea the ninth country in the world...
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Self-Configurable Architecture for Reusable Space Systems
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Self-healing system could save rovers When a computer breaks down, human hands have to intervene and fix the problem. When that computer is on Mars, it can be a little more difficult to send help. UA researchers, along with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, have designed a self-healing computer sy...
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GLONASS
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Russia will launch three GLONASS (global navigation satellite system) satellites on 25th December, 2005, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
"We are planning a launch of three satellites of the GLONASS system on December 25, which will bring the number of GLONASS units to...
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JANUS Satellite Mission
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Title: The JANUS X-Ray Flash Monitor Authors: A. D. Falcone, D. N. Burrows, S. Barthelmy, W. Chang, J. Fredley, M. Kelly, R. Klar, D. Palmer, S. Persyn, K. Reichard, P. Roming, E. Seifert, R. W. M. Smith, P. Wood, M. Zugger JANUS is a NASA small explorer class mission which just completed phase A and was...
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Molniya 3-39 Satellite Re-entry
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A Molniya 3-39 communications satellite that was launched on the 20th September, 1990 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, on the Molniya Program, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 1st July, 2009 @ 12:13 GMT ± 48 hours. TLE Data pre>MOLNIYA 3-39 1 20813U 90084A 09178.98249733 .18...
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eROSITA X-ray telescope
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eROSITA X-ray telescope: DLR and Roskosmos sign agreement in Moscow The German eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) X-ray telescope is to start searching for black holes and dark matter in 2012, using seven electronic 'eyes'. On 18 August 2009, executive board memb...
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AsiaSat 5
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL), today announced that it has been chosen by Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), Hong Kong, to build AsiaSat 5, a new generation communications satellite designe...
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Work on the development, manufacturing and launching of China's first satellite for a foreign buyer is going on smoothly as scheduled.
Wang Haibo, president of the China Great Wall Industry Corp., said preliminary designs of the project passed the evaluation of a panel of experts representi...
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ALSAT-2
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EADS Astrium has signed a contract with the Algerian National Space Technology Centre (CNTS) for the development of the ALSAT-2 system, which consists of two optical observation satellites. ALSAT-2 is the first Earth observation satellite system from the AstroSat100 family to be built...
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German Lunar lander
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Germany Proposes Unmanned Moon Landing for 2015 Germany should try to launch an unmanned mission to the moon by around 2015, the government official in charge of aerospace matters said. Economy Ministry State Secretary Peter Hintze said a German moon landing could be feasible "within the ne...
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SL-12 Rocket Body Re-entry
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A Proton-K SL-12 Rocket body (Auxiliary Motor) that was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on the 25th December, 2002, for the Glonass (COSMOS 2394, 2395, 2396) satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 10th August, 2009 @ 23:05 GMT ±48 hours. Period:...
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Raguda Satellite
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A three-stage Proton booster, topped by a Block DM upper stage, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 04:10 GMT, 28th February, 2009. The Raguda military communications satellite is to operate in a geosynchronous orbit. Proton-K Blasts Off with RADUGA-1 Military Satellite...
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