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A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the 23rd Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on October 23rd.
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XEUS telescope
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British scientists are building the biggest telescope to be launched into space - aiming to probe some of the most distant and mysterious corners of the universe. The X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy, or XEUS, telescope is one of the next generation of space-based observatories that will rep...
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Middletown High School rocket science
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"Five! Four! Three! Two! One!" Successful liftoff? Err, not this time. "What went wrong?" Middletown High School science teacher Susan Cunningham asked, wondering why the foot-long sputtering model rocket failed to break free from gravity's pull for a few moments and jet...
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XRMON-Foam experiment module
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Last week, at ESA's 46th parabolic flight campaign in Bordeaux, SSC engineers performed pre-cursor flights of the XRMON-Foam experiment module and also had the opportunity to experience microgravity themselves. SSC's three flights were very successful, with nominal processing of all six sam...
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An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket (Flight 179) with an ECA cryogenic upper stage is to to launch the British Skynet 5B military communications satellite and the Brazilian STAR ONE C1 telecommunications spacecraft, from launchpad ELA-3, in Kourou, French Guiana on November 9th, 2007. The Brazilia...
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Venus Lander
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A high-tech refrigeration system could keep a rover functioning for weeks on the searingly hot surface of Venus, say NASA researchers. A long-lived Venus rover could help scientists understand why Venus, with its runaway greenhouse effect, has become so different from Earth. The surface of Venu...
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White Sands dishes
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Three new antennas at NASA's White Sands ... Engineers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md., showcased the new 18-meter Ka Band Antenna Network, the first such system in agency history, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico on Novembe...
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Young Engineers Satellite
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After 5 years of design and development work and preparation of the flight model, the second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) experiment has passed its Final Acceptance Review and been given the green light by ESA for launch in September. Following four and a half months of assembly, integration a...
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STS-120 mission
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Lunar Exploration Orbiter
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Germany hopes to put an unmanned space craft into the moon's orbit in the early part of the next decade, a senior German official said on Wednesday. The lunar orbit mission will be useful for scientific research, said Deputy Economy Minister Peter Hintze, the government's aerospace coordinator. ...
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XEUS satellite
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A University of Leicester astrophysicist is playing a pivotal role in a mission that seeks to study the origins of the universe. Professor Martin Turner of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is Co-Principal Investigator on XEUS - a next-generation X-ray space observatory. XEUS, which stand...
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SS-18 test launch
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According to Russia’s Missile Forces its RS-20V Voyevoda intercontinental ballistic missile has been tested successfully, United Press International reports.
The test of the long-range missile, that NATO has given the codename SS-18 Satan, launched from the Russian city of Orenburg and re...
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Rapid Eye program
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U.S. engineers have long wanted to fold up an airplane inside a rocket and send it on a mission to cruise through the atmosphere of Mars. They now have a new potential customer for the concept: the Pentagon's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA started a program earlier this year called...
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SIRIUS 4 Satellite
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An International Launch Services Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage will launch the SIRIUS 4 commercial communications spacecraft for operator SES SIRIUS of Sweden, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on November 17th, 2007, 22:40 GMT (5:40 p.m. EST) The SIRIUS 4 satellite arrive...
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Glonass satellite launch
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A Proton K rocket with three Glonass navigation satellites on board is scheduled to liftoff from the Baikonur space centre, Kazakhstan, at 11.35 a.m. Moscow time (7.35 a.m. GMT) October 26.
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