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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch Anna University's 50-kg micro satellite ANUSAT, designed and fabricated at the University on April 20, Vice-Chancellor P. Mannar Jawahar said here on April 13. The satellite is being sponsored by ISRO. [url=http://www.indiaedunews....
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Interplanetary web
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Designing the interplanetary web Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering technologies that ESA is working on for future exploration mission...
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Intelsat 22 satellite
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Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services, announced today that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has agreed to purchase a specialised UHF communications payload aboard an Intelsat satellite scheduled for launch in 2012. As part of the "hosted payload&qu...
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A Russian Soyuz rocket with a Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft and Expedition 17 crew will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 11:16 GMT, 8th April, 2008. The Expedition 17 crew, station commander Sergei Volkov, flight engineer Oleg Kononenko and South Korean spaceflight part...
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Intelsat I
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Intelsat I (nicknamed Early Bird for the proverb "The early bird catches the worm") was the first (commercial) communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit, on April 6 ,1965. It was built by the Space and Communications Group of Hughes Aircraft Company (later Hughes...
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea launched an experimental communications satellite aboard a Taepodong-2 rocket from a launchpad at Musudan-ri, North Korea, formally know as the Taepo-dong missile launch facility on Sunday. Analysts have suggested that the satellite failed to reach...
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TIROS I
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TIROS I (or TIROS-1) was the first successful weather satellite, and the first of a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites. It was launched at 6:40 AM EST on April 1, 1960 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the United States. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIROS-1]Read more[/...
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(Old news) Germany launches the first V-1 rocket attacks against London. It is the first guided-missile strike against an enemy city in the history of warfare. The V-1, one of Nazi Germany's so-called "wonder weapons," had been in development during the '30s but research slowed when a G...
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BrahMos Aerospace
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India and Russia have so far invested 300 million dollars in BrahMos Aerospace, which was established to design, develop, produce and market the missile by using the technological skills and capabilities of both countries.
India and Russia intend to make 1,000 BrahMos supersonic cruise missi...
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ISEE-3/ICE spacecraft
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ISEE-3 was originally launched on August 12, 1978, as the International Sun-Earth Explorer to a halo orbit about one of the Earth-Moon libration points to study Earth's magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind. Then, in 1983, it employed several lunar gravity assist flybys to send it...
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Paper airplane
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A paper airplane is to be launched from the International Space Station to mark a new dawn in space travel. The eight inch plane is the result of an unlikely collaboration between a Japanese professor of aerospace engineering and origami masters to design a novel kind of spacecraft. [url=http://w...
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Ranger 9
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Ranger 9 Moon Impact Mission Ranger 9 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. The spacecraft carried six television vidicon cameras, 2 wide angle (channel F, cameras A and B...
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GRACE
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The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment project launched two satellites in 2002 and they have been collecting data on Earths gravity for the past five years. This data has been used to make the most accurate maps of Earths gravity and how it changes as the planets mass shifts. The data can also be u...
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Vanguard I satellite
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The Vanguard I satellite , the world's oldest orbiting man-made satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1958, will mark its 50th year in space on March 17. Read more Period 132.85 Incl. 34.26 Apogee 3840 ...
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Titan II missile
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The best way to view the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum's Titan II missile is from the very bottom. Descend via McMinnville's biggest spiral staircase to two stories below the museum floor, where huge steel supports hold the missile upright. Crank your head back as far as it will go and look up...
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