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Sea Launch is now preparing for the launch of the EchoStar X satellite in February. On this mission, Sea Launch will lift the 4333 kg communications satellite to a high perigee geosynchronous transfer orbit in February.
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MOSES
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A NASA rocket bearing a payload built at Montana State University blasted 175 miles into space shortly before noon Wednesday, Feb. 8, above New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range.
The 1,000-pound payload, which includes an optical bench equipped with high-resolution cameras, took picture...
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Minotaur rocket
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An experimental satellite designed to test autonomous technologies by rendezvousing with space debris and defunct spacecraft was launched aboard a Pegasus booster on Monday 11th April 2005.
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair has said that the Insat-4A will be launched on 14 November from the second launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Media reports indicate that Insat-4A will facilitate Direct To Home (DTH) service of the Indian Bro...
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NASA near-misses
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Beyond the 1986 Challenger explosion and the February 2003 Columbia accident, NASA has had close calls on several missions. NASA identified 12 of the near-misses this spring to use as teaching tools for shuttle managers.
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December 1983, Columbia: Dual shuttle...
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Image satellite
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The Image satellite launched in 2000 to study the Earth's magnetic field has successfully completed its mission. It made observations until last month when engineers discovered that its power supply had failed.
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Soyuz-2 Launch
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According to Aleksey Kuznetsov, head of the Russian Space Troops press service, the next trial launch of the Soyuz-2 medium carrier rocket will take place at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 2006.
"The first test launch of the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket was successfully carried out on 8 November 2004. T...
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Gonets-1M Launch
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A rocket carrying two satellites will be launched from the northern Plesetsk space centre on Tuesday evening (20th December 2005).
"The carrier rocket will orbit the Gonets-1M communications satellite to provide services for security agencies and another satellite ordered by...
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ST5 Project
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NASA's Space Technology 5 micro-satellites have arrived at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, launch site for a scheduled February lift-off aboard a Pegasus XL rocket.
The launch window extends from February 28 to March 31, 2006.
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Zenit-2M Launch
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The launch of the Russian Zenit-2M carrier rocket has been scheduled for the first quarter of 2007 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
A delegation of Russian and U.S. specialists are currently working at Baikonur, examining the infrastructure of the space centre, and will be involved in preparin...
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Koronas-F
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According to the Russian Space Agency, the Koronas-F scientific satellite finished its orbital mission on Tuesday, 17:34 GMT, and almost completely disintegrated after re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
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Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, says that it plans to launch the Astro-EII satellite carrying an X-ray telescope into Earth's orbit as early as next month to study black holes and distant galaxies.
The launch is planned between June 26 and July 15 but could be delay...
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Texus-EML Launch
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Today, the Texus-EML sounding rocket which is jointly funded by ESA and DLR was successfully launched from Esrange at 09.04 UT. The Brazilian rocket motor VSB-30[url=http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=58381&subForumID=15...
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On Friday night, June 24, to Saturday, June 25, 2005, Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA to launch the Spaceway 2 and Telkom 2 spacecraft.
The launch window will open: from 09:03 pm to 09:36 p.m., Kourou time, on Friday, June 24, (02:03 am to 02:36 a.m., Paris time, on Sat...
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Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications, today confirmed the successful transition of services to the new Inmarsat-4 satellite covering the Indian Ocean Region.
The I-4 satellite, which was launched on 11 March 2005, is now supporting all...
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