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Project Diana, named for the Roman moon goddess Diana - goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the moon - was a project of the US Army Signal Corps to bounce radio signals off the moon and receive the reflected signals. Today called EME (Earth-Moon-Earth), this was the first attempt to "touch&quo...
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First hydrogen gas balloon flight over the English Channel
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First hydrogen gas balloon flight over the English Channel, 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard with an American, Dr John Jeffries, was the first to fly in a hydrogen gas balloon over the English Channel, taking about 2˝ hours to travel from England to France on 7 January 1785. Read more
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Unity connecting module
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The Unity connecting module was carried into orbit as the primary cargo of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-88, the first Space Shuttle mission dedicated to assembly of the station. On December 6, 1998, the STS-88 crew mated the aft berthing port of Unity with the forward hatch of the already or...
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Sputnik I Satellite
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For nearly 50 years, Bob Morgan and his family have kept a box full of charred debris that they swear fell out of the early morning sky on Dec. 8, 1957. Although no one has ever confirmed what the objects were, Mr. Morgan has long believed that he has a piece — or 13 pieces to be exact — of one of the most famous...
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Two experimental satellites are being developed for the Galileo System Test Bed – Version 2, which will make up the first phase of in the 'in-orbit validation' of the Galileo system.
Both spacecraft are now approximately six months away from launch.
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Beidou satellites
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China is expected to launch two navigation satellites early next year as part of a plan to build a global navigation positioning network.
The launch of the two "Beidou" (Compass) satellites, scheduled for the beginning of 2007, is expected to cover China and parts of neighbouring countries by 20...
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Ariane 1 rocket
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Ariane 1 is the first version of the Ariane launcher family. Ariane 1 was designed primarily to put two telecommunications satellites at a time into orbit, thus reducing costs. The first launch was on 24 December 1979, and was successful. Read more
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Nozomi
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Nozomi (Japanese for "Wish" or "Hope," and known before launch as Planet-B) was planned as a Mars-orbiting aeronomy probe, but was unable to achieve Mars orbit due to electrical failures. It was constructed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, University o...
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Helios 2B Satellite
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Arianespace Flight 193 is scheduled to launch the French military Helios 2B optical and infrared reconnaissance satellite into a polar orbit from Kourou, French Guiana on the 9th December 2009.
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SpaceShipOne flight 11P
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Flight 11P of SpaceShipOne was its eighth independent flight, its first powered flight, and the first privately-funded manned flight to reach supersonic speeds. It occurred on December 17, 2003. Read more
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A Boeing Delta 2 rocket in a 7920 vehicle configuration will launch a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, from SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California between 20:00-01:00 GMT on December 14th.
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Mariner 2 Spacecraft
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Mariner 2, the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft, was launched on the 27th August, 1962. Read more (Old news)
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ISRO Launch Calendar
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All these years the Indian space agency ISRO had launched satellites primarily for domestic use. Opportunities to carry third-party payloads are now being actively tapped.
Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has a busy launch calendar ahead. A slew of launches have been...
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IKAROS mission
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JAXA is studying two missions to evaluate the performance of solar power sails. The project name for the first mission is IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun). This craft will be launched in 2010 together with the Venus Climate Orbiter, "AKATSUKI"(P...
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Thanks to measurements by the D-CIXS X-ray spectrometer, ESA`s SMART-1 spacecraft has made the first ever unambiguous remote-sensing detection of calcium on the Moon.
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