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The United States, Australia and Canada have voiced concerns to China over the first known satellite-killing test in space in more than 20 years, the White House said Thursday. “The U.S. believes China’s development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of c...
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Topol/SS-25 Test
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The Russian Rocket Forces successfully test launched a Topol/SS-25 missile from the Plesetsk test site toward the Kura test range in Kamchatka, at 13:38 Moscow time (09:38 UTC), 3rd August, 2006 .
The launch was to test the currently deployed Topol missiles. According to a Rocket Forces represe...
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Alice Springs Space balloon
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Space balloon rips from mooring The launch of a giant space balloon went badly wrong Thursday in the Australian Outback when it and its heavy payload of scientific equipment broke from a mooring and dragged across the desert, overturning an SUV and narrowly missing bystanders. One witness said she...
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KySat-1 satellite
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NASA to launch Kentucky satellite A satellite built by a consortium of Kentucky universities, public agencies and businesses will be launched during a NASA space shuttle mission sometime in mid-2009. KySat-1, the first satellite built in Kentucky, is a cube-shaped unit powered by solar energy,...
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Nuclear Compton Telescope
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NASA Releases Report About Australia Balloon Mishap A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful April 28 launch of a scientific balloon from Alice Springs, Australia, has released its report. NASA was attempting to launch the balloon carrying a gamma-ray telescope belonging to the Univers...
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Kazakhstan space program
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Kazakhstan is looking to the heavens: Its cabinet on Monday approved a draft version of an ambitious new space technology development program to be implemented over the next four years. Under the new program, the government will devote funds to further develop the scientific and technical knowle...
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MAXI Mission
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Title: The MAXI Mission on the ISS: Science and Instruments for Monitoring All Sky X-Ray Images Authors: Masaru Matsuoka (1), Kazuyoshi Kawasaki (1), Shiro Ueno (1), Hiroshi Tomida (1), Mitsuhiro Kohama (1 and 2), Motoko Suzuki (1), Yasuki Adachi (1), Masaki Ishikawa (1), Tatehiro Mihara (2), Mu...
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ICESat
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New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, based on data from a NASA Earth-orbiting s...
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SHEFEX II program
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'Sharp' rocket set to revolutionise space travel German scientists unveiled on Friday the key part of a flat-sided, re-usable space rocket they say would be much cheaper and easier to build than NASA's space shuttles. Clusters four satellites, Rumba, Samba, Salsa, and Tango, fly in formation aro...
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African Space Agency
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AU to Establish African Space Agency The African Union, has commenced a process that would lead to the setting up of a regional space agency. The agency, to be known as the African Space Agency, would focus on the development of common space policy for the continent . In a communique issured at the end o...
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GRIP Flight
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Snapshot of Activity Inside NASA's First GRIP Flight Scientists, graduate students and NASA flight crew came together and took part in the first flight of the DC-8 aircraft in NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment on Tuesday, August 17, as it flew into the remnants...
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Cosmos Tsyklon 2 Launch
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The Tselina-2 naval reconnaisance satellite aboard a Zenith-2 launcher, from Baykonur, is tentatively scheduled to launch on June 22nd.
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Prisma mission
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Prisma is a Swedish satellite project designed to develop and qualify new technology which is necessary for future research projects. Many of these projects include formation flight and rendezvous, i.e. multiple spacecraft can communicate and interact with each other with high precision with...
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Rascom-QAF 1R satellite
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Arianespace to launch new pan-African satellite Rascom-QAF 1R Arianespace and Thales Alenia Space today announced the signature of the launch Service & Solutions contract for the pan-African communications satellite, Rascom-QAF 1R. Rascom-QAF 1R is scheduled for launch into geostati...
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Tropospheric Ozone Monitoring Instrument
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TROPOMI - the Instrument Long-term monitoring is essential for climat research and for monitoring the effect of the measures of the Montreal Protocol. In order to prepare for the period after 2010, when OMI on Aura and SCIAMACHY on ENVISAT have reached their end-of-life, the OMI and SCIAMACHY part...
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