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Galaxy-19 satellite
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The Sea Launch consortium is to launch the Galaxy 19 communications satellite atop a Zenit 3SL rocket from the Odyssey floating platform, stationed in the Pacific Ocean at 09:28 GMT, 23rd September, 2008. The 4,690 kg Intelsat Galaxy 19 satellite will occupy the orbital location at 97 degrees We...
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Preparations for the first launch of this year of Proton-M launch vehicle with Arabsat 4A communications satellite are in progress on Baikonur launch site.
Foreign specialists with the help of the Khrunichev team started preparations of the clean room where the satellite will be pre...
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NAVSTAR GPS 2R-19 (M6)
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A ULA Delta 2 rocket will launch the military NAVSTAR GPS 2R-19 (M6) Global Positioning System Block 2R navigation satellite, from SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral, Florida at 06:09-06:23 GMT, March 15, 2008.
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Rocket Fuel Explosion
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A retired NASA engineer trying to invent a cheap way for average people to travel to space caused a bang in Hitch**** on Saturday morning when his rocket fuel exploded, police said. Jim Akkerman, president of Advent Launch Services, accidentally caused the explosion as he was working on a spacecraf...
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South Korea’s fourth commercial, and first military-purpose satellite Koreasat-5 will be launched from the southern Pacific Ocean near Hawaii in July.
The nation’s dominant fixed-line operator said that the new satellite will be launched from a floating launch platform located at a point...
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Galaxy-11 satellite
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The Galaxy 11 geostationary communications satellite has been repositioned at the 92.9° West orbital location. The satellite will conduct Telemetry, Tracking, and Control operations for the drift to and operations at the 92.9° W orbital location. The Galaxy 11 satellite, aboard an Ariane 44...
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ISRO reusable spacecraft
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India is surging ahead literally out of this world as Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) begins work on a wholly indigenous effort to build a space shuttle that will carry Indians into the space like US space shuttle, Columbia. India is planning to launch a reusable spacecraft for the first t...
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Proton-K SL-12 R/B Re-entry
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A Proton-K SL-12 R/B Auxiliary Motor that was launched in December, 2001, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the Glonass 1/3, 1/5, 1/6 (Cosmos 2380/81/82) Mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th August 2008 @ 10:05 GMT ± 3 hours. [url=http://img170.imageshack.us/img1...
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ALV X-1 Launch Failure
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Angosat
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The Angolan government has formalised a project to produce, launch and operate an Angolan satellite dubbed "Angosat", Angola's official news agency ANGOP reported on Sunday. The project also includes the creation of human resources and relevant infrastructures. The Angolan gover...
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New Worlds Mission
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The New Worlds Mission is a project funded by NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC), headed by Dr. Webster Cash of the University of Colorado at Boulder in conjunction with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Northrop Grumman, Southwest Research Institute and others. The project pla...
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Hermes spacecraft
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Morris Jarvis likes to think big. By day he is a project engineer, working for Intel Corp. on its latest mega fabs. By night, he is working on a personal spacecraft. Jarvis brought his latest prototype, the prototype Hermes spacecraft, to the show floor of the Intel Developer Forum here. Using off-th...
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Micro-spacecraft
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Fleets of inexpensive, pint-sized spacecraft are one giant leap closer to lift off. Researchers here at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society describe a new, razor thin temperature-regulating film that brings this sci-fi vision of "micro-spacecraft" weighin...
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announced that it has signed a contract with the Department of Defence's Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office to carry their first Jumpstart mission payload onboard the upcoming Falcon 1 launch. Scheduled for flight in June 2008 from the Sp...
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Superbird-7 satellite
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Arianespace is to launch the Superbird-7 & AMC-21 communications satellites on Thursday, August 14, 2008. An Ariane 5 rocket (Flight 185) with an ECA cryogenic upper stage will orbit two satellites: Superbird-7 for Japanese operator Space Communications Corporation (SCC) in the scope of...
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