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Satellite 02B
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Satellite 02B, the third Chinese and Brazilian earth resources satellite, is to be to launch in September this year. The satellite was jointly developed by China and Brazil, The satellite has been put through a series of tests at the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE) and is to b...
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The Egyptian government plans to launch three new satellites by the end of 2006 or early 2007.
Ayman Desouki, head of Egypt's National Authority for Remote Sensing said the first satellite, named as Egyptsat 1, will be launched from Kazakhstan.
Egyptsat 1 will carry two remote sensing devic...
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Cumã II VSB-30 Launch
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Brazil on Thursday successfully launched a VSB-30 rocket on a 20-minute flight aimed at studying how gravity affects human enzymes and DNA. The 41-foot-high two-stage VSB-30 rocket, was launched from the coastal Alcantara site in northeastern Brazil, and managed to reach an altitude of appro...
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Tech Saar Satellite
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Israel is to launch the Tech Saar advanced surveillance satellite using an Indian satellite launcher rather than the Israeli “Shavit” launcher. This will be the first time that Israel has not used their own launcher to launch an operational spy satellite. The new radar satellite is manufactured b...
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Khrunichev MAR system
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Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre has developed a system of mid-air retrieval (MAR) for first-stage boosters involving a parafoil with lift devices and a helicopter. The Khrunichev MAR system would be for a 10,000kg first-stage booster fitted with a parafoil at lea...
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Delta II RB Re-entry
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A Delta II Stage 2 Rocket Body, International designation 2007 004F, (30585), that was launched on the 17th February 2007, from LC17 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, for the THEMIS mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 15th July 2007 @ 05:29 GMT ± 168 Hours. Predicte...
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Sathybhama University Satellite
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An Indian university will soon have its own satellite, with the state-owned Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) promising to help it to put the satellite in space. Sathybhama University, a deemed educational institution here, has asked the ISRO to help it put an educational satellite into...
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Molniya 1 satellite re-entry
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A Molniya 1 communications satellites , International designation 1992 071A, (20742), that was launched on the 10th August 1990, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, for a Molniya 1-83 mission was predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 06 JUL 2007 @ 23:39 UTC ± 35 Minutes. Predicted Decay Loc...
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DirecTV 10 Satellite
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An International Launch Services Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage will launch the DirecTV 10 broadcasting spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan . The launch of the Boeing-built satellite been scheduled for June this year. "A Briz-M booster, which will be used on th...
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SAR-Lupe 2 Satellite
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The launch of the second German radar reconnaissance satellite in the SAR-Lupe system has been scheduled for the evening of July 1, 2007. Like its predecessor, it will be launched into its low-earth orbit from the Russian Plesetsk Cosmodrome onboard a Kosmos 3M rocket. Launch is scheduled for 19...
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Molniya 1-83 Satellite
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A Molniya 1 communications satellites , International designation 1992 011A, (21897), that was launched on the 4th March 1992, from LC43, at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, for the Molniya 1-83 mission was predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 2nd July 2007 @ 00:48 UTC ± 3 hours. The 1600 kg...
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Fengyun-2D
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China will launch its second geostationary orbit meteorological satellite, Fengyun-2 D on Dec. 8, according to the China Meteorological Administration.
Yang Jun, director of the National Satellite Meteorological Centre under the China Meteorological Administration, said that the Fengy...
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Tselina-2 launch
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Tselina-2 launch scheduled for launch tomorrow. A Kosmos-2428 (Tselina-2 n23) satellite is scheduled to be launched aboard a Zenit-2M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, at 10:00 UTC, 29 June 2007 This is the first launch of the new upgraded Zenit launch vehicles to lift off from Baiko...
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Genesis II launch
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The launch of a privately funded US space module, Genesis II, has been delayed by a month for testing, the second such delay for it, its American makers said Monday. Genesis II was scheduled for launch in Russia by a civilian Dnepr rocket, based on a modified intercontinental ballistic missile. But a...
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Nuclear-powered rockets
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Nuclear-powered rockets could save NASA billions of dollars in launch costs for its planned return to the Moon, a top nuclear scientist says. He argues that the higher efficiency of nuclear propulsion would reduce the number of launches needed to build a lunar base. NASA wants to start sending astr...
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