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Mercury-Atlas 6 mission
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On this day in February, 1962 astronaut John Glenn launched into space aboard his Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 atop an Atlas rocket. He became the fifth person in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling the globe three times during a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seco...
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XMM-Newton
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ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton joins the fleet of spacecraft taking part in one of the world’s largest astronomical observation campaigns - the Deep Impact event – on 4 July 2005.
On 4 July, NASA’s Deep Impact mission will send a 370 kg copper projectile (impactor) to impa...
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ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
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ESA and NASA are inviting scientists from across the world to propose instruments for their joint Mars mission, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Scheduled for launch in 2016, the spacecraft will focus on understanding the rarest constituents of the martian atmosphere, including the mysterious me...
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Private Moon landing
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Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon. The competition to send a robot craft to the Moon is being run with the X-Prize Foundation. To claim the cash, any craft reaching the lunar surface must perform a series of tasks such as shoot video and ro...
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HAYABUSA (MUSES-C) mission
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The HAYABUSA (MUSES-C) mission to the will investigate an S-type Asteroid (25143) Itokawa, an asteroid known as an earth-approaching type.
The Japanese spacecraft HAYABUSA will encounter Itokawa (1998SF36) on October - November this year, it will...
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Venus mission
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Experts of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the European Space Agency (ESA) are discussing the possibility of a joint space expedition to Venus. Read more
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Beagle 2 Mars probe
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The ill-fated Beagle 2 Mars probe should never have been given the go-ahead, says a powerful MPs' committee.
The much-hyped probe was "doomed from the start", the public accounts committee said while criticising the management of civil space activities.
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GeoEye-2 Satellite
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GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) , a leading producer of satellite and aerial imagery and geospatial information, today announced it has contracted with ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) to begin work on the camera for GeoEye's next satellite, GeoEye-2. This is the first step in a phased development proces...
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Magnetospheric Multiscale mission
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NASA has announced they have chosen the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, US, to develop and design four satellites for the agency's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, due to be launched in 2013.
The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a Solar-Terrestrial Probe mis...
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NPP Satellite
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NOAA, NASA Restore Climate Sensor to Upcoming NPP Satellite NASA and NOAA Wednesday announced a plan to restore a key ozone layer climate sensor to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program. The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb will be...
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New Horizons mission
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April was a memorable month for the New Horizons spacecraft team, for it saw the completion of spacecraft assembly and the accomplishment of a thorough Comprehensive Performance Test (CPT) that put the spacecraft and its seven instruments through rigorous functional testing.
The upcomi...
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Proba Mission
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On 22 October 2001, Proba was launched as a technology demonstrator within ESA’s General Support Technology Programme. Once in orbit, however, the small satellite’s unique capabilities and performance made it evident that it could make big contributions to science and so its nominal lifetime w...
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Chang'e-2 Satellite
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China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, will be launched in October 2010, a top space scientist said Thursday. Ye Peijian, chief designer of the nation's first moon probe, told the third International Conference on Space Information Technology in Beijing yesterday that the country's lunar land...
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AMS 02 experiment
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An experiment to search in space for dark matter, missing matter & antimatter on the international space station.
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
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Sunrise 2 mission
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Four years after its first flight, the team prepares the Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory on a new mission After about two months of preparations at Kiruna in northern Sweden the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise is now ready to fly: Just one last rehearsal on the ground is still pend...
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