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Vinasat-2
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Vietnam's VNPT Plans To Launch New Orbital Satellite By 2012[url=http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200909062245...
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Polyus spacecraft
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The Polyus spacecraft, also known as Polus, Skif-DM, GRAU index 17F19DM, was a prototype orbital weapons platform designed to defend against anti-satellite weapons with a recoilless cannon. It had a Functional Cargo Block (similar to the Zarya FGB that became the first component of the Interna...
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Sputnik III satellite
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Jacksonville astronomers had their first close-up look at the rocket casing of Russias Sputnik III satellite. Ernest Rowland, president of the Jacksonville Astronomy Club, reported an excellent sighting of the rocket section. The casing was 12 feet long and 5 feet in diameter and was estimated t...
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High Altitude Lensing Observatory
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Title: Space-quality data from balloon-borne telescopes: the High Altitude Lensing Observatory (HALO) Authors: Jason Rhodes, Benjamin Dobke, Jeffrey Booth, Richard Massey, Kurt Liewer, Roger Smith, Adam Amara, Jack Aldrich, Joel Berge, Naidu Bezawada, Paul Brugarolas, Paul Clark, Cornel...
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Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2
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Scientists who want to measure the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have run into an accountant's worst nightmare: They know how much carbon dioxide we're producing, but they don't know where it's all going. Those scientists' hopes for finding the missing carbon dioxide were dashed when the Jet Prop...
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Advanced Extremely High Frequency 2 Satellite
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Second Advanced Military Communications Satellite Completes Major Environmental Test... Lockheed Martin has successfully completed acoustic testing of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite. The Advanced EHF system will provide survivab...
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GMES Sentinel-2 satellite
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The European Space Agency and Astrium today signed a 195 million contract to provide the first Sentinel-2 earth observation satellite, devoted to monitoring the land environment, as part of the European GMES programme. As prime contractor, Astrium is responsible for the design, development an...
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The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Centre awarded United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the U.S. Navy's first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle. The anticipated launch date is t...
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Space tourism
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The boundaries of interplanetary space exploration have been given a major shove into new territory by the Stevenage hub of one of the worlds leading space systems manufacturers, Astrium. The £2 billion company, which is grabbing the headlines with its catchy design for a tourist space jet, has al...
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Expedition 14
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NASA Announces 14th International Space Station Crew
NASA astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin have been named as the 14th crew of the International Space Station. Expedition 14 is scheduled to begin this fall.
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Dong Fang Hong I
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40th Anniversary (1970), Mao 1 Launch (1st Chinese Satellite) Dong Fang Hong I was the People's Republic of China's first space satellite, launched successfully on April 24, 1970 as part of the PRC's Dong Fang Hong space satellite program. At 173 kg, it was heavier than the first satellites of other...
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EPFL electric propulsion
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Micromachined Propulsion systems for very small satellites Electric propulsion for spacecraft provides thrust by emitting electrically-charged particles extremely high speeds. Such thrusters do not burn fuel, they eject it. Since the speed of the outgoing particles are much higher for ele...
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Soyuz 1 mission
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On this day in 1967 the Soyuz 1 was launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov. The cosmonaut was to die in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. Read more
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Private-fund owned satellite firm Intelsat and a South African investment consortium plan to build and launch a $250 million satellite to serve Africa and improve communications on the poorest continent. Intelsat and an investment group led by Convergence Partners said in a statement on Tuesda...
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Earth to Sky Balloon
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Students' Balloon to Observe Draconid Meteor Shower Students from a remote area in Central California close to the Nevada border may get a rare to opportunity to catch a glimpse of the Draconid meteor shower Saturday. A helium balloon experiment by a group of high school and middle school students a...
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