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The Japanese Space Agency, JAXA, announced on April 23rd that they are now accepting proposals for a microprobe to be piggybacked on the launch of Venus Climate Orbiter, their upcoming robotic mission to Venus. They will provide a free ride to either a low-Earth orbit or on a trajectory toward Venu...
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Shepard rocket
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Purdue University researchers are designing and building an experiment that will operate during a test flight of a new type of reusable rocket to be launched by aerospace company Blue Origin LLC. The experiment will be used to study how fluids behave in low gravity, providing information that coul...
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Arabsat 6B 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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ISRO Mars mission
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Mars mission by 2013-2015, says ISRO India's mission to Mars will take place between 2013-2015, Indian Space Research Organisation chief G Madhavan Nair said on Monday. Read more
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
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NASA has given the award of launch services for the LRO mission to Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services Inc. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during a launch window that opens on Oct. 31, 2008. Once launched, payload instru...
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Long March VI rocket
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Long March 6 launch to put new engine to the test China will soon conduct the first flight of the Long March 6 launch vehicle using the country's new-generation rocket engine, according to a senior scientist. Read more
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Deep Space Climate Observatory
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NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory was designed to monitor Earth from the vantage point of distant space. It was to be the first probe to give scientists a holistic, global view of temperatures and environmental conditions. Originally named Triana, it became a poster child for then-Vice Presi...
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MSG-4 satellite
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Arianespace chosen to launch MSG-4 weather satellite Lars Prahm, Director-General of EUMETSAT, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman & CEO of Arianespace, signed today the launch Service & Solutions contract for the MSG-4 meteorological observation satellite in Kourou, French Guiana, du...
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Apollo 11
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Shortly before the Apollo 11 mission, perched on its massive Saturn rocket, thundered off from Cape Kennedy to accomplish its historic manned landing on the Moon in July 1969, there was a singular encounter you don't often hear about. A protest group of some 300 members of the Poor People's...
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STEREO satellite
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The first spacecraft designed to capture 3-D “stereo” views of the sun and solar wind were shipped, on the 9th November, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland., to NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland., for their next rou...
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Apollo-Soyuz
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Events to mark the 30th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz space project open in the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., Today. "Thirty years ago in July, a new era of international cooperation began when the world's two space powers shook hands in space" - National Ai...
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Tupac Katari satellite
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The Bolivian government and a Chinese corporation on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding on helping Bolivia launch communications satellite "Tupac Katari." The agreement was signed by Executive Director of the Bolivian Space Agency Willy Herbas and Yin Liming, presiden...
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Mars Odyssey orbiter
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The Mars Odyssey orbiter was in safe mode Monday after a computer glitch prevented the 6-year-old spacecraft from relaying data from the twin rovers rolling across the Martian surface. Project leaders said the Mars Odyssey was not in danger. Engineers discovered the problem Friday after a softwa...
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Aquarius/SAC-D Mission
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International Science Teams Selected for Aquarius/SAC-D Mission NASA and Argentina's Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), with support from the Argentine Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovative Production (MinCyT), have selected additional members of the interna...
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TRMM Deorbit
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NASA administrator Michael Griffin has decided to further extend the mission of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft, used in hurricane forecasting, perhaps until 2010; even though such an extension would make it impossible to carry out a controlled re-entry.
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