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China launches 4th navigation satellite China successfully launched its fourth orbiter into space at 23:53 (15:53 GMT) Wednesday, as a part of its indigenous satellite navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system. The launch was disclosed by the Ministry of Industry an...
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SERVIS-2 satellite
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The Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF) of Tokyo, Japan and Eurockot Launch Services GmbH of Bremen, Germany yesterday signed a contract for the launch of the SERVIS-2 spacecraft on a Rockot launch vehicle following an international competition. SERVIS-2 will verify the p...
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ATV-D02
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Indian rockets to soon use atmospheric oxygen as fuel In an attempt to make its rockets lighter and carry heavier satellites, the Indian space agency is planning to flight test by the end of this year its own air-breathing engine that will use atmospheric oxygen as fuel. Air-breathing engines use at...
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Yamal-401 satellite
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Arianespace has been chosen to launch the two communications satellites, Yamal-401 and Yamal-402 within the scope of a contract between Thales Alenia Space and Russian operator Gazprom. The launch contract was signed yesterday in Moscow, following the contract signed by Thales Alenia Space an...
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A ULA Delta 4 rocket with the GPS 2F-1 navigation satellite is scheduled to launch from pad SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, between 03:29 - 03:48 GMT, 21st May, 2010.
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UNITEC-1 spacecraft
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A spacecraft built by students has been launched towards another planet for the first time, but it has fallen ominously silent. The toaster-oven-sized cube called UNITEC-1 was launched towards Venus on 20 May [2010]. It hitched a ride on the same rocket that launched a half-tonne Venus orbiter nam...
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Earth Venture missions
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NASA Takes to the Air With New 'Earth Venture' Research Projects Hurricanes, air quality and Arctic ecosystems are among the research areas to be investigated during the next five years by new NASA airborne science missions announced today. The five competitively-selected proposals, includin...
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DMSP F17 satellite
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A Boeing Delta 4 Medium rocket will launch the polar-orbiting Meteorological Satellite Program 17, (DMSP F17), for the U.S. Air Force, from SLC-6, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, at 13:53-...
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Boeing X-51
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The Boeing X-51 is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic (Mach 6, approx. 4,000 mph or 6,400 km/h at altitude) flight testing. The X-51 WaveRider program is a consortium of the US Air Force, DARPA, NASA, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. [url=http://en.wikiped...
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Agni ballistic missile
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India test-fires Agni ballistic missile Click to Play | View Details
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-132) is scheduled to launch from LC-39A, Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, at 18:19 GMT (2:19 p.m. EDT), 14th May, 2010.
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Launch of the Syracuse 3A Telkom 2 on an Ariane 5 from CSG Kourou, French Guiana has been delayed to July.
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Explorer 32 satellite
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Explorer 32 - also known as Atmosphere Explorer-B (AE-B) - was a satellite launched by the United States to study the Earth's upper atmosphere. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta-C1 rocket, on 25 May 1966. Read more
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Payload preparations are underway for Arianespace's first launch of 2010 The first-arrived payload for Ariane 5's year-opening flight is undergoing initial checkout at Europe's Spaceport as preparations move forward for a dual-passenger mission set for March 24. After ASTRA 3B's delivery in...
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Project Icarus
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Title: PROJECT ICARUS: Son of Daedalus, Flying Closer to Another Star Authors: K. F. Long, R. K. Obousy, A. C. Tziolas, A. Mann, R. Osborne, A. Presby, M. Fogg During the 1970s members of the British Interplanetary Society embarked on a landmark theoretical engineering design study to send a probe t...
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