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The 14 candidates for China's next manned space mission have undergone testing for the zero-gravity conditions they will experience in space.
Competition is heating up as just two of the 14 astronauts will have a chance to be on the next space flight, expected to take place this autumn.
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NRO_L-24 Launch
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A classified spacecraft payload, NROL-24, is scheduled for launch on 2007 Dec 10 at 22:04 UTC (17:04 EST), from SLC-41, Cape Canaveral, aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket. The rocket will fly with a four-metre fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is considering a proposal to cooperate with Russia on the development of a new manned spacecraft that could give ESA for the first time its own independent means of launching humans into space.
The British newspaper The Observer reported that the ESA Council will t...
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NAVSTAR GPS 2R-18 (M5)
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A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket in a 7925 vehicle configuration will launch the NAVSTAR GPS 2R-18 (M5) (Global Positioning System Block 2R) military navigation satellite from SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral, Florida at 19:59-20:13 GMT (14:59-15:13 EST), 20th December, 2007. The Global...
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RADARSAT-2
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Starsem has announces today the signing of a contract with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA) for the launch of MDA's RADARSAT-2 Earth observation satellite by a Soyuz launch vehicle.
The launch is planned to take place in December 2006 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Th...
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Yaogan-3 Launch
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China has successfully launched the Yaogan III remote sensing satellite aboard a Long March-4C carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi Province at 6:48 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Monday. The 2,700-kilogram satellite entered the preset orbit 21 minutes late...
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VS30 Sounding rocket
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Brazil and Argentina have successfully launched a VS30 Sounding rocket from Brazil's Barreira do Inferno launch centre in northern Rio Grande do Norte state, on Sunday. The joint space mission which was delayed several times since Wednesday by bad weather, lasted 9 minutes, 25 seconds. The Si...
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INSAT- 4CR satellite
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch its communication satellite INSAT- 4CR as a replacement to INSAT-4C which was reduced to debris during its unsuccess...
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Agni-IV missile
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In what could provide India greater strategic depth, the government on Wednesday announced its plan to develop 6,000-km range Agni-IV missile which will be capable of destroying targets deep in China. The announcement is seen as a move to send out strong signals to countries in the neighbourhood....
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GOES-12 satellite
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GOES-12 Anomaly On Tuesday 4 December, 2007, the GOES-12 (GOES-East) weather satellite experienced an anomaly in its attitude following a scheduled North-South station keeping manoeuvre. On Wednesday (2007-12-05) GOES-10 replaced GOES-12 as the GOES-East satellite. CLASS is now using GOE...
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Globus N18 satellite
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A Russian Raduga 1 - 8 (Globus N18) secret military satellite aboard a Proton K / Energiya Blok DM-2 rocket is scheduled to launch from LC81R at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 00:16 GMT, December 9th, 2007. The 2000 kg geosynchronous communications relay satellite was built by NPO PM - R...
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Molniya-M carrier rocket Launch
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Russia has launched a Molniya-M carrier rocket with 2BL upper stage and a Kosmos military (Oko) satellite aboard from the Plesetsk space centre on Tuesday morning. The satellite entered orbit about one hour later. The launching of the carrier with a military satellite was made from the northern co...
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SAR-Lupe 3 Satellite
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A Russian Kosmos-3M liquid-fuelled two-stage rocket will launch the SAR-Lupe 3 spacecraft from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, into Earth orbit on November 1st. The SAR-Lupe 3 satellite is the third in a series of five German radar reconnaissance satellites. The Kosmos-3M booster has been...
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AlSAT-1
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Five years in orbit for first DMC satellite AlSAT-1 This week, Algeria celebrates the 5th anniversary of its first satellite, AlSAT-1 which marked the beginning of the countrys national space programme. Five years on, the African nation not only benefits from improved cartography, pollution mo...
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STABILO1B vehicle
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Mission2 flight of STABILO1B vehicle was launched on September 25, 2007 at 08:30 local time from Cape Midia Air Force Launch Site ARCA mission 2 video Click to Play | View Details Read more
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