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7th Earth Explorer mission
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ESA showcases new Earth Explorer excellence Three new satellite concepts are vying to be chosen as ESA's seventh Earth Explorer mission. In preparation for selection next year, a series of reports has been published presenting the scientific and technical ambition of each mission. Since the Bi...
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Japan has postponed the launch of a third spy satellite due to a technical glitch.
The satellite will spy on communist North Korea for at least six months.
Japan launched two spy satellites in March 2003.
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Venera 4 spacecraft
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On this day in 1967, the Venera 4 spacecraft was launched. Venera 4 was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. Venera-4 was the first successful probe to perform in-place analysis of the environment of another planet. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_4]Rea...
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GEMS Mission
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Goddard-Led GEMS Mission to Explore the Polarised Universe An exciting new astrophysics mission led by NASAs Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md., will provide a revolutionary window into the universe. Named the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS), the satellite will...
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Envisat spacecraft
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Launched from Kourou in French Guiana on the night of 28 February 2002, ESA’s Envisat spacecraft marks its fifth year in space. Having orbited Earth more than 26 000 times, the world’s largest and most complex environmental satellite ever launched has travelled a distance of more than 1 000 000 000 k...
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Surveyor 1
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Surveyor 1 - America's first soft lunar landing Surveyor 1 was the first in a series of seven US missions to the Moon that preceded Apollo; five of the seven missions were successful. Surveyor 1 was launched on May 30, 1966, and landed on June 2, 1966. The mission's objectives were to soft land on the Moo...
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Artemis data relay satellite
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Artemis, ESA's data relay satellite, successfully answered the call for emergency services from the ATV Control Centre due to anticipated outages at the NASA Space Centre in Houston, Texas. Artemis is operated from ESA's facility at Redu, Belgium which houses the spacecraft's mission control c...
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First tent in Space
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In May 2012, while the world's eyes were on the Space X Dragon launch, another piece of history was made. In the Scottish Highlands four intrepid Vangonauts attempted their first mission and managed to pitch a tent at 104,000ft (over three a...
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Mercury-Atlas 7 mission
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Mercury-Atlas 7 was a Mercury program American manned space mission launched May 24, 1962. The Mercury spacecraft was named Aurora 7 and made three earth orbits, piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter. Read more
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Spaceships
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Astrochemist Markus Hammonds (aka Invader Xan) has made a nice graphic over on Supernova Condensate showing the relative sizes of a bunch of spacecraft. Read more
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Soyuz-U carrier rocket
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Russia folds Soyuz-U launch programme[url=http://www.newkerala.com/news/newsplus/worldnews-23215.html]...
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Nimiq 6 satellite
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and the leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that it has been selected to provide a satellite for Telesat, one of the world's leading satellite operators. The new satellite, Nimiq 6, which is ful...
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Venera 6 spacecraft
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The Soviet Venera 6 spacecraft was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (69-002C) on January 10, 1969 towards Venus to obtain atmospheric data. The spacecraft began its descent into the atmosphere of Venus on the 17th May, 1969. Read more
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JCSAT-13 satellite
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Japanese operator SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation has chosen Arianespace to launch its new JCSAT-13 communications satellite. This new contract is the 7th contract signed in 2009 by Arianespace with the major satellite operators. Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Masanori...
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