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Soyuz SL-6 Rocket Body Re-entry (KOSMOS 1586)
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A Russian Soyuz SL-6 Rocket Body that was launched on the 2nd August, 1984, from the Plesetsk launch complex on the KOSMOS 1586 mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 6th November, 2009 @ 06:11 GMT ±48 hours. TLE Data pre>SL6 RB2 1 15156U 84079D 09306.88146277 .18437291 138...
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European Student Moon Orbiter
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ESA's Education Office has awarded a contract to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd of the UK to manage the development and testing of the first European student mission to the Moon. Launch is expected in 2013-2014. Read more
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Rocket Helen
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The Romanian Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Association (ARCA) will launch in October from a Black Sea platform the country's first space rocket dubbed Helen, in what is the final rehearsal for a 30 million dollar astronautic contest for landing a privately built spacecraft on the moon, initiated...
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Ares I-Y
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NASA Drops Ares I-Y Flight-test NASA's Constellation Program has recommended dropping a planned follow-on to last week's successful Ares I-X flight-test because it doesn't have the funding necessary to get an upper stage engine ready in time. [url=http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/...
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A Japanese H-IIB rocket is scheduled to launched the HTV-1 (H-2 Transfer Vehicle) unmanned cargo ship at 17:01 GMT, 10th September, 2009, from the Tanegashima Space Centre, Japan. The Transfer Vehicle will deliver 4.5 metric tons of equipment and supplies to the orbiting International Space St...
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NAVSTAR GPS IIR-20 (M) Satellite
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According to US Air Force officials, the GPS IIR-20 (M) satellite will not enter into operational service this year due to a design fault that has caused signal distortions. Ground Engineers are working on the problem of the degraded signal accuracy. A ULA DELTA 2 rocket body launched the GPS IIR-2...
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New satellite operator ProtoStar has chosen Arianespace to launch DTH satellite ProtoStar I.
Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall announced today during his annual January press conference that Arianespace will launch the ProtoStar I satellite for ProtoStar Ltd.
This is the 280th launch con...
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An Atlas IIAS CENTAUR Rocket body that was launched on the 18th June, 1998, from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, on the INTELSAT 805 mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 12th October, 2009. TLE Data pre>ATLAS 2AS CENTAUR RB 1 25372U 98037B 09245.75446378 .00853936 -...
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BX-1 Satellite Re-entry
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The Chinese BX-1 microsatellite that was launched with the Shenzhou-VII spaceship on the 25th September, 2008, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 23rd October, 2009. TLE Data pre>BX-1 1 33392U 08047G 09294.89186114 .00438935 11354...
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hhh ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, convenes the press, Tuesday June 26 at 10 h 30 to mark the last stage of an important contract of 10 M$ to build the main component on the new Japanese satellite GOSAT (Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite). The satellite, which will be lau...
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Nuclear-powered spacecraft
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President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will spend $600 million on a nuclear-powered spacecraft to take men to Mars, and beyond. A nuclear-powered spaceship that can carry passengers to Mars and beyond may sound like science fiction. But Russian engineers say they have a breakthrough design for su...
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2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge
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The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge continues to heat up, with a FOURTH competitor now officially entered in the race for the remaining purses. Team BonNovA, stationed in Mojave, CA, will be flying their Lauryad I & II vehicles on October 26-27, 2009 at Cantil, CA. [url=http://thelau...
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Joint Dark Energy Mission
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An independent panel asked to review a major set of NASA missions has given the thumbs up to a satellite designed to probe dark energy. Less lucky was a major X-ray observatory, which the panel recommends be deferred for now. The report, by the US National Research Council (NRC), prioritises the item...
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CUTE 1.7 Satellite
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The Japanese CUTE 1.7 Satellite that was launched on the 21st February, 2006, from the Kagoshima Space Centre, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 14th October, 2009. TLE Data pre>CUTE 1.7 1 28941U 06005C 09281.10416529 .00308410 47573-4 33455-3 5066 2 28941 098.1261 118.354...
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Rocketplane Global
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A discount supermarket where Austrians might usually pick up a bargain bag of frozen Wiener schnitzel has a new offering: sub-orbital space flights. On Thursday the Austrian wing of Penny Markt, a subsidiary of the German REWE retail group, began offering to take bookings for flights on an as-yet i...
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