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Atlas V is an active expendable launch system in the Atlas rocket family. Atlas V was formerly operated by Lockheed Martin, and is now operated by the Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance. Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid ox...
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Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space
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Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space is a project led by the European Space Agency which will place an ultra-stable atomic clock on the International Space Station. Source The fact that time can be measured very precisel...
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Satellite collisions
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The U.S. Space Surveillance Network (SSN) has identified two accidental collisions between orbiting satellites.
One recent collision occurred in January 17 2005, while the other is a much older event which occurred in 1991 but has just now been recognized.
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A ULA Delta II rocket in a 7920-10 vehicle configuration is scheduled to launch the Space Tracking and Surveillance System Demonstrators mission for the Missile Defence Agency, from SLC-17B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, at 12:00 GMT, 23rd September, 2009. There is a 1 hour launch w...
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Chinese Super Launch Vehicle
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Chinese engineers are considering a new super-powerful engine for the next generation of space rockets, say officials. According to Li Tongyu, general manager of the marketing department at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), engineers are currently studying a rocket engin...
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Advanced Crew Transportation System
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The first official image of a Russian-European manned spacecraft has been unveiled. It is designed to replace the Soyuz vehicle currently in use by Russia and will allow Europe to participate directly in crew transportation. [url=http://new...
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India will shortly launch Cartosat-2B, a high-resolution remote sensing satellite, that will aid in infrastructure and urban planning, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K Radhakrishnan said on Thursday. The launch was expected by March end or mid-April and the exact date would be fi...
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X-15 Research Airplane
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The X-15 Research Airplane reached an altitude of 106,010 metres on the 19th July, 1963. This was the first X-15 flight over 100 km (a height known as the Karman line), which made the pilot Joe Walker the first US civilian in space. Maximum Speed - 5,971 km/h. Maximum Altitude - 106,010 m. Read more + X-1...
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Swedish Space Corporation
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Board Wants to Sell Satellite Division The Swedish Space Corporation may sell off the department that builds satellites despite there being an ongoing mission which could be highly profitable for the Swedish space industry. SVT reports that the reason given is that the satellite industry is not c...
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STUDsat
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Engineering students from Bangalore and Hyderabad who teamed up to develop STUDsat will see the pico-sized satellite in orbit on May 10. STUDSAT is a PICO Satellite weighing less than 1 Kg with a volume of 1.1 litres and is designed to operate in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at an altitude of 680 Km. The paylo...
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Proton rocket
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Today is the 45th anniversary of the first Russian 2-stage Proton rocket launch. The Proton rocket has become one of the most successful and reliable rockets in the commercial space industry. Read more
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NASA Centennial Challenges
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NASA Announces Three New Centennial Challenges NASA announced three new Centennial Challenges Tuesday, with an overall prize purse of $5 million. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technological achievements by independent teams who work without government funding. T...
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University Students And Professors Ready To "Rock On" With NASA University students and professors from across the country and Puerto Rico will converge on NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia this month to learn how to build small experiments that can be launched on sounding ro...
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Echostar 15
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An ILS Proton-M launch vehicle with a Breeze-M upper stage is scheduled to launch the EchoStar 15 telecommunications spacecraft, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 18:40 GMT, 10th July, 2010.
The satellite built by US Space Systems Loral () will be operated by EchoStar Orbital Corpora...
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1979: Skylab tumbles back to Earth
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The US space laboratory, Skylab I, plunged to Earth this evening scattering debris across the southern Indian Ocean and sparsely populated Western Australia.
All week there has been mounting speculation over where the spacecraft would come down. It has been in orbit six years - for the past five...
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