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Peru has launched its first space probe entirely designed and built by Peruvian scientists.
The Paulet I, named after Peruvian aviation pioneer Pedro Paulet, was launched on Tuesday at 3.30 p.m. from the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) base in Punta Lobos, Pucusana, 50 km south of Peru's capital Lima.
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Zhongxing 6 mission
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A Boeing Delta 2 rocket in the 7925 vehicle configuration, will launch a NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block 2R (GPS 2R-15 -M2) military navigation satellite from SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida between 1850-1903 GMT (2:50-3:03 p.m. EDT) on September 25th.
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Shijian 8 satellite
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China will launch the Shijian 8 (SJ-8) satellite from the Jiuquan launch centre, in September 2006.
According to officials with the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence,
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MEASAT-3 satellite
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Boeing and MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd (MEASAT) announced today that the MEASAT-3 communications satellite has been shipped from the Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, to the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, wh...
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A-135 missile test
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Russia carried out a successful missile test at the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan, at 08:00 UTC, 5th December.
The A-135 missile interceptor defence system is currently deployed around Moscow.
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Arabsat 4B
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An ILS Proton M rocket with a Breeze M upper stage will launch the Badr 4 (ARABSAT 4B) spacecraft for the Arab Satellite Communications Organisation, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 20:01 GMT, 8th November. -- Edited by Blobrana at 10:56, 2006-11-05
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Fengyun-2C
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Errors in short-term weather forecasting will be greatly reduced when a new Shanghai-made meteorological satellite is put into formal use next month.
The Fengyun-2C satellite was launched last October as China's first international-quality satellite. The weather monitor has been...
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Envisat and Kodama Satellite Test
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ESA’s Envisat satellite and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) data relay test satellite Kodama have successfully completed an interoperability test demonstrating that scientific data from Envisat can be transmitted to Kodama and from there transmitted to the Japanese ground r...
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Chu-SAM missile
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The Japanese military successfully tested a new surface-to-air defensive missile in a live training exercise for the first time Thursday in a remote area of the American Southwest.
The Chu-SAM missile was launched about 30 miles northeast of El Paso, Texas, at McGregor Range, where Japanese fo...
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A Chinese Chang Zheng (Long March) 3B carrier rocket is scheduled to launch the SinoSat 2 (a.k.a. Xinnuo 2), satellite at the end of October, 2006, from Launch Complex 2 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre.
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Vesper mission
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The planet Venus is almost the same size as Earth, so it has been called Earth's twin. It's only about 30 percent closer to the sun than Earth, and at the dawn of the space age, scientists thought its clou...
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Spektr-UF ultraviolet observatory
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Russia is to launch the Spektr-UF ultraviolet observatory, also known as the World Space Observatory, into a highly elliptical orbit in 2010 under the 2006-2015 federal space program. The spacecraft's optical telescope will feature a 1.7-meter main mirror as well as high- and low-resolution sp...
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Kosmos2423 satellite
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According to a spokesman for Russia's Space Forces, a medium-class Soyuz-U carrier rocket has put the Kosmos-2423 satellite into orbit after being launched from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan at 13:39 GMT, Thursday, 14th September.
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