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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and the world's leading provider of high-power commercial satellites, today announced that it was selected to provide a new direct broadcast satellite (DBS), EchoStar XVI, to a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation. [...
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Shenzhou V
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As the nation held its collective breath, China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, floated back to the motherland, having orbited Earth 14 times in the Shenzhou 5, or Divine Capsule. It was October 2003, and the national broadcaster CCTV carried live coverage of the momentous event, from Mr. Yang's fa...
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VRSS-1 satellite
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Venezuela parliament authorises new satellite program with China Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday endorsed a new satellite contract program with China, the second such bilateral project between the two countries. The parliament published the authorisation of the new project, also...
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Bell X-1 tests
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On 14 October 1947, just under a month after the United States Air Force had been created as a separate service, the Bell X-1 tests culminated in the first manned supersonic flight, piloted by Air Force Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager in aircraft #46-062, which he had christened Glamorou...
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Apollo 7
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Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the Apollo program to be launched. It was an eleven-day Earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-man American space mission. Read more
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Mercury project
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On October 7, 1958, T. Keith Glennan, the first administrator of NASA, approved the Mercury project. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth. Read more
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Dhanush missile
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India successfully test fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile from a naval ship off the coast of the Orissa state on Sunday. The single-stage ship-based missile was flight-tested at around 11.30 am and the trial was successful, defence sources said. [url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/...
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The Ansari X Prize
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The Ansari X Prize was won on October 4, 2004, by the Tier One project designed by Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, using the experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne. Read more
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Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package
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The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) comprised a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site of each of the five Apollo missions to land on the Moon following Apollo 11 (Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). The ALSEP system and instruments were controlled b...
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Stratosphere I Balloon
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Navy telescope photographs the sun[url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/sep/25/looking-back-navys-first-photos-suns-corona/]Read
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SpaceX Grasshopper
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Grasshopper Takes Its First Hop / 9-21-12 On Friday, September 21, 2012 SpaceX's Grasshopper vertical takeoff and landing test vehicle (VTVL) took its first test flight hop from the company's rocket testing facility in McGregor, Texas....
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Space Shuttle Endeavour
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Arrives at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Centre NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Endeavour mounted atop arrived Sept. 20, 2012, at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Centre on Edwards A...
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Agni-III Launch
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According to India's top military scientist, Dr M. Natrajan, the country's Agni-III ballistic missile is ready for a test launch.
The 3-stage solid/liquid-fuel Agni-III (Fire) nuclear-capable ballistic missile has an official ra...
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South Africa plans to launch a low earth orbiting satellite in December this year for disaster monitoring and other purposes, the country's announced on Monday.
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PongSats
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Ping pong ball 'satellites' to have balloon ride to edge of space A do-it-yourself space program is gearing up to return to the edge of Earth's atmosphere, floating above the world and the boundary between the sky and stars. All manner of payloads, a majority of them contained in ping pong balls creat...
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