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Amazonas 3 satellite
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Amazonas 3 arrives in French Guiana for Arianespace's year-opening Ariane 5 launch The HISPASAT Amazonas 3 satellite for Arianespaces first Ariane 5 mission of 2013 has arrived in French Guiana, marking the start of payload preparations for this year-opening dual-passenger flight from the Spa...
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Globalstar 19-24 satellites
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Payload elements come together in Starsem's wrap-up Soyuz mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome for Globalstar The Soyuz launch campaign for Globalstar's final batch of second-generation satellites has entered a new phase at Baikonur Cosmodrome, with the "stack" of six spacecraft now...
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Korean Ready for Launch Friday Afternoon The launch of Korea's homegrown space rocket, dubbed Naro, will proceed as planned on Friday. Read more
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Intelsat 27
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Sea Launch to Launch the Intelsat 27 Spacecraft Sea Launch has been selected to launch the Intelsat 27 communications satellite in early 2013. Intelsat 27 will be placed into an optimised geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) utilising the highly-proven Sea Launch Zenit 3SL launch system. The la...
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TDRS-K satellite
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New Comm Satellite Launch Nears Spoiler Managers at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre update media on Jan. 28 about Wednesday's scheduled launch of the TDRS-K, the first of a new generation of communications satellites that will...
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OSCAR 1 Satellite
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OSCAR is an acronym for Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio. OSCAR series satellites use amateur radio frequencies to facilitate communication between amateur radio stations. The first amateur satellite simply named OSCAR-1, was launched on December 12, 1961, barely four years after t...
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FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 constellation
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SSTL to build weather satellite constellation British satellite manufacturer SSTL will build the follow-on spacecraft for an innovative weather forecasting system run by Tawain and the US. The Cosmic constellation assists meteorologists by measuring the extent to which GPS signals are alter...
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IGS 8A satellite
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A H-2A Launch Vehicle No. 22 is scheduled to launch a classified IGS radar reconnaissance satellite from the Tanegashima Space Centre, Japan, on the 27th January, 2013. The two hour launch window opens at 04:00 UT.
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International Ultraviolet Explorer
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The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was an astronomical observatory satellite primarily designed to take ultraviolet spectra. The satellite was a collaborative project between NASA, the UK Science Research Council and the European Space Agency (ESA). The mission was first propose...
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Infrared Astronomical Satellite
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The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) was the first-ever space-based observatory to perform a survey of the entire sky at infrared wavelengths. Launched on January 25, 1983, its mission lasted ten months. Read more [spoiler][/sp...
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In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites These testbed satellites will be followed by four IOV Galileo satellites that will be much closer to the final Galileo satellite design. The Search & Rescue feature is not installed. The first two satellites are scheduled to launch on 20 October 2011 from...
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Meteosat-10
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Europe's latest weather eye set for launch In Europe, this is a really big year for our weather agencies because they get two new satellites that will be absolutely crucial to their work. One is another polar-orbiting spacecraft called Metop-B, due for launch in May (see previous posting). The othe...
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A ULA Delta IV Medium+ (5,4 configuration) launch vehicle with the USAF Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-4) satellite is scheduled to launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on the 20th January, 2012. The 93-minute launch window opens at 00:38 UTC.
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Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystem mission
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A team of researchers and collaborators from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences in Tucson has successfully conducted the first test flight of a prototype science instrument for a next-generation satellite mission t...
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3 Kosmos Satellites
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Russia Launches Three Military Satellites Russia has launched three Cosmos series military-purpose satellites, the Aerospace Defence Forces spokesman said on Tuesday. A Rokot launch vehicle carrying the satellites successfully lifted off from the Plesetsk Space Centre in northern Russia,...
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