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Echo I
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Echo I bounces first voices, pictures beyond Earth's curve NASA launched Echo I, the world's first passive communications satellite, from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 12, 1960. "The principal use of the Echo satellite, is in radio communication experiments, in which reflection from the 100 foot...
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Topex/Poseidon
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The 13-year mission of the joint NASA/Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales Topex/Poseidon oceanography satellite has finished after nearly 62,000 orbits of Earth. The spacecraft lost its ability to manoeuvre, bringing to a close its scientific mission.
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Mars 6 Mission
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The Mars program was a series of unmanned spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between 1960 and 1973. The spacecraft were intended to explore Mars, and included flyby probes, landers and orbiters. Mars 6 successfully lifted off on August 5, 1973, into an intermediate Earth orbit on a Proton SL-1...
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HYLAS 2 satellite to be launched by Arianespace Avanti Communications Group plc has chosen Arianespace to launch its HYLAS 2 communications satellite. The HYLAS 2 satellite will be boosted into geostationary transfer orbit in the first half of 2012 by an Ariane 5 or Soyuz launcher operating at the...
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Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment
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NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experimen...
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Large Scale Polarisation Explorer
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Title: A coherent polarimeter array for the Large Scale Polarisation Explorer balloon experiment Authors: M. Bersanelli, A. Mennella, G. Morgante, M. Zannoni, G. Addamo, A. Baschirotto, P. Battaglia, A. Baù, B. Cappellini, F. Cavaliere, F. Cuttaia, F. Del Torto, S. Donzelli, Z. Farooqui, M. Fr...
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Commercial Crew Program
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Commercial Crew Announcement this Week? Charles Lurio of The Lurio Report has emailed me saying that he has heard from a very reliable source that NASA will announce the next round of commercial crew funding on Thursday or Friday. This is no independent verification of this report. [url=http://ww...
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Armadillo Aerospace
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Best known for creating two of the world's most ground-breaking video games, Doom and Quake, John Carmack is quietly breaking ground in another nascent field: commercial rocketry.
Nearly six years ago, Carmack founded Texas-based Armadillo Aerospace to build next-generation vehicles fo...
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Koichi Wakata
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Veteran astronaut Koichi Wakata is offering himself as a human guinea pig through a prolonged stay aboard the International Space Station. Wakata, 45, will become the first Japanese to spend three months in space following his scheduled lift-off aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Kenne...
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MetOp-A satellite
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The first MetOp meteorological satellite arrived yesterday at its launch site, the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, following shipment from the industrial prime contractor, EADS Astrium in Toulouse, on board an Antonov-124 transport plane.
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IGS 1B Satellite
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One of a set of four spy satellites Japan launched has malfunctioned in orbit. The news is another setback for the Japanese intelligence-gathering programme that has suffered delays since a domestically developed H2-A rocket carrying two spy satellites veered off course and had to be destroyed i...
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Shuttle launch
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Weather forecasters at the Kennedy Space Centre predict a 40 percent chance that weather would not be favourable for the planned launch.
Should Wednesday's launch be called off, NASA would attempt it again on Thursday, when chances of unfavourable weather would be only 30 percent.
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GIOVE-B satellite
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The launch of a satellite of the European global positioning system Galileo from the Baikonur cosmodrome has been put off until the spring of 2007.
The launch of the GIOVE-B satellite has been postponed for technical reasons.
The satellite was originally to be launched in the spring of 2006,...
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Landsat satellite
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Free Landsat Scenes Go Public by the Million On August 17, someone who wanted to see how the Earth looks from 440 miles away in space downloaded the one-millionth Landsat satellite image scene from a U.S. Geological Survey web site at its Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Centre in Siou...
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NEEMO 16 mission
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The NEEMO 16 mission is tentatively set for the summer of 2012. Read more
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