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GISAT set for 2016-17 launch Geo Imaging Satellite (GISAT) will observe earth from geo-stationery orbit, enabling continuous observation of Indian sub-continent, to facilitate quick monitoring of natural hazards and disaster. The project is progressing well for a launch by GSLV in 2016-17. [...
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North Korea to launch long-range rocket in December North Korea is to launch a long-range rocket between 10 and 22 December, its official news agency says. The KCNA agency said the aim was to launch a satellite. Read more
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Mexsat 3
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Mexsat Bicentenario is based on Orbital's GEOStar-2 platform and will generate approximately 3.5 kilowatts of payload power and carry 12 active extended Ku-band and 12 active extended C-band transponders. The spacecraft will provide communications services to Mexico and its surrounding wat...
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Skynet 5D satellite
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An Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA rocket is scheduled to launch the Skynet 5D and Mexsat 3 (Mexsat Bicentenario) communications satellites from Kourou, French Guiana, at 21:30 UT, 19th December, 2012.
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Goturk-2 satellite
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Turkey's first home-made, high-resolution earth observation satellite Göktürk-2 will be launched today in China. Göktürk-2 satellite will be launched from the Jiuquan Space Base located in Gansu State of China on Tuesday (18.12.2012). [url=http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/en/newsD...
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Project SCORE
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Project SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the worlds first communications satellite. Launched aboard an Atlas rocket on December 18, 1958, SCORE provided a first test of a communications relay system in space, as well as the first successful use of the Atlas as a launc...
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Relay 1 satellite
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Relay 1 was an early American experimental communications satellite funded by NASA and developed by RCA. Relay 1 was launched atop a Delta B rocket on December 13, 1962 from LC-17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Its payload included radiation experiments designed to map the earth's radiatio...
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Pioneer 8
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Anniversary of the Pioneer 8 Launch in 1967. Pioneer 8 was the third in a series of solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis. The spacecr...
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Uhuru Satellite
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Uhuru, also known as the Small Astronomical Satellite 1 (SAS-1), X-ray Explorer Satellite or Explorer 42 and was the first earth-orbiting mission dedicated entirely to celestial X-ray astronomy. It was launched on 12 December 1970 from the San Marco platform in Kenya. December 12 was the seventh...
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Arianespace's fourth Spaceport mission with Soyuz: the Pléiades 1B satellite is readied for fuelling Soyuz Flight VS04 The dual-use, very-high-resolution Pléiades 1B satellite payload for Arianespace's fourth Soyuz mission from French Guiana is ready for fuelling, marking a new step in the p...
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GSLV mission
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GSLV's next launch in April Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) P S Veeraraghavan has said that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is well on course to launching its GSLV space mission with indigenously built cryogenic engine in April 2013. [url=http://timesofindia.ind...
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ATS-1 Satellite
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ATS-1 was a communications satellite intended to test geostationary orbit techniques at 37,000 km above Earth, initially in orbit over Ecuador. it transmitted weather images and data to ground stations. It was the first satellite to use frequency division multiple access which accepted multip...
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Kosmos 2482, 2485 and 2484
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A Rockot launch vehicle is scheduled to launch the Kosmos 2482, 2485 and 2484 satellites from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 20:34 UT, 7th December, 2012. The satellites will provide communication services for the russian military.
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Vanguard TV3
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Vanguard TV3 Launch Fail. (1957) Vanguard TV-3 exploded a few seconds after lift-off on December 6, 1957, this was accordingly viewed, at least in the eye of the general public, as a major embarrassment and a disaster for the U.S. space program. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_%28...
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Eutelsat W5A
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Sea Launch Selected to Launch Eutelsat's W5A Spacecraft Eutelsat has assigned the launch of its EUTELSAT 70B (ex. W5A) communications satellite to Sea Launch to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2012. The launch will occur from Sea Launch's launch platform Odyssey at its equatorial launch site...
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