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N-1 Rocket Body Re-entry
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An N-1 Rocket Body that was launched from Tanegashima Island on the 22nd February 1980, for the Ayame 2 mission Reentred the Earths atmosphere on the 6th April, 2009 @ 4:00 GMT ± 2 hours Inclination: 24.4° Revolution Number: 52776 Predicted Location: 14.6° S, 268.8° E
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UC San Diego balloon-satellite project
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A group of ****roaches recently took a ride on a high-altitude balloon launched into space by freshmen aerospace engineering students from the University of California, San Diego. The ****roaches were put in a variety of capsules to see how they would survive in different extreme environments, i...
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Martian mission (sim)
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The Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicinal and Biological Problems will conduct the world's first simulated manned Martian mission this autumn.
Yevgeny Demin, a Technical supervisor, said an expedition to Mars might be launched in 2010-2016. "U.S. and EU experts are more c...
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Telstar 11N
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Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL), today announced that construction of Telstar 11N, a powerful new multi-region Ku-band communications satellite, has begun at Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) in Palo Alto, California, US.
"With Telstar 11N, Loral S...
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ODIN
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There is no evidence for recovering ozone layer yet, according to the latest results from the Odin satellite.
The Odin satellite is now celebrating five years of observations.
The Swedish orbital observatory Odin confirms large natural variations of ozone depletion processes over the...
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Titan Saturn System Mission
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Ambitious plans to send probes to the outer planets are being considered by US and European space officials. One proposal envisages sending an orbiter to Saturn which would also drop a lander and a balloon on to the haze-shrouded moon Titan. The other sees two separate orbiters despatched to invest...
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Rocket Fuel
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Could future trips to space be powered by vegetable oil? In a test firing earlier this month, the California-based engineering firm Flometrics announced that commercially available biodiesel produced almost the same amount of thrust as conventional rocket fuel. The find may not come as much of a...
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The launch of a Persona military reconnaissance satellite aboard a Soyuz Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Site LC-43/4 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome has been postponed by twenty-four hours. Launch had been scheduled for 18:50 UTC, 25 July 2008. "The state commission led by Space Troops Commander Ma...
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HOTBIRD 10
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The HOT BIRD 10 satellite for Arianespace's initial Ariane 5 mission of 2009 was delivered to French Guiana today, arriving aboard a chartered cargo jetliner that completed its transatlantic trip from Europe. This spacecraft will be launched on the February 12 flight, which will mark the start of...
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Express MD1 satellite
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A Proton rocket has successfully launched the Express AM44 and Express MD1 communications satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 00:03 GMT Wednesday (3:03 a.m. msk). The satellites entered orbit at 09:29 GMT. The 2,500 kilogram Express AM44 satellite, built by ISS Reshetnev,...
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Express-AM44 Satellite
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The Express-AM44 and Express-MD1 communications satellites atop a Proton-M carrier rocket are to be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on February 11, 2009. The Express-AM44 is to replace the aging Express-A3 satellite, which has reached the end of its service life and occup...
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Axel Rover System
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Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain, and explore deep craters. This prototype rover, called Axel, migh...
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ChinaSat6B
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The China Great Wall Industry Corp. (CGWIC), a satellite launch service contractor, and China Satcom signed a deal on Friday to launch a French-made broadcast satellite.
According to the deal, CGWIC will provide the launch service for China Satcom, the owner of the satellite...
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Super-pressure balloon
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Kosmos 2241
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A Russian Molniya-M SL-6 Rocket Body that was launched on the 6th April 1993 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome LC43/4 is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on 10th February 2009 @ 04:41 GMT ± 48 hours. TLE Data /span>SL-6 RB 1 22597U 93022D 09037.86123503 .14900007 18565-4 26663-3 3707 2 22597...
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