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Indian military satellite
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The armed forces are now gearing up to storm the final frontier of space. India's first dedicated military satellite, a naval communications one, will finally be up and running in the sky early next year. The naval satellite's launch by ISRO will be followed by separate IAF and Army ones in 2011-2012...
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ThermoLab experiment
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On Thursday, 15 October 2009, at the same time as the 300th anniversary celebrations of Berlin's Charité university hospital began, the ThermoLab experiment was launched on the International Space Station (ISS). Scientists from Charité want to use the experiment to study changes in the heat bal...
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Sounding-rocket Coronagraphic Experiment
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The Italian instrument, launched on 14 September, has obtained the first images of helium in the Sun's corona For the first time, a telescope has trained its eyes on the Sun and managed to photograph the helium emissions that burst from the corona of our star. The credit for this achievement goes to SC...
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After the successful Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C7 mission and the recovery of the Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE)-1 in January, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for the launch of PSLV-C8. The launch is set for the third week of April, PSLV mission di...
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Sterilising spacecraft
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Planetary scientists are looking for new ways to sterilise their spacecraft, so that they won't be excluded from exploring interesting places In 1975, the twin Viking landers sped off to Mars as the most sparklingly clean things ever put into space. If either was to have any chance of detecting micr...
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Lockheed Martin space plane demonstrator
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A reusable rocket plane has made a successful test flight from New Mexico's Spaceport America - a prototype craft built to showcase proprietary advanced launch technologies. The small unpiloted vehicle soared into New Mexico skies on Oct. 10, making use of launch services provided by UP Aerospac...
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The Russian military satellite Kosmos-2449 is scheduled to launch from the Plesetsk spaceport on the 29th April, 2009. -- Edited by Blobrana on Monday 4th of May 2009 01:21:37 PM
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COSMOS 2445
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According to a Space Forces spokesman, Lt. Col. Alexei Zolotukhin, a Soyuz-U rocket carrying a Kobalt-M optical reconnaissance defence satellite took off from the Russian Plesetsk spaceport at 6:50 p.m. Moscow time (15:50 UT) on Friday. "The satellite reached the designated orbit at 6:59...
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Missile test
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North Korea short range missile test North Korea has test-fired five KN-02 short-range surface-to-surface missiles into the Sea of Japan yesterday The KN-02 missile has a maximum range of 120km.
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Space organisations in Canada, the European Union, Japan, Russia and the United States have agreed on the following schedule and members for the 20th Expedition Crew that will stay on the International Space Station (ISS). We are pleased to note that Astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospac...
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Venera-D
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Russia plots return to Venus Densely clouded in acid-laden mist, Venus used to be the Soviet Union's favourite target for planetary exploration. Now, after a lull of almost three decades, Russia is making plans for a new mission to the "morning star" and has invited Western scientists t...
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Space gun
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When Jules Verne wrote about a gigantic gun that could be used to launch people into space in the 19th century, no one expected it to become a reality. Now physicist John Hunter has outlined the design of such a gun that he says could slash the cost of putting cargo into orbit. [url=http://www.newscien...
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KSLV-II Rocket
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'KSLV-II launch in 2019 will be difficult' For Korea to launch a fully indigenous space rocket in 2019 as planned may be difficult because the country has yet to sufficiently secure core technology, a lawmaker said yesterday. During the ongoing parliamentary inspection of the administration, Re...
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FalconSAT-6
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The cadets are evaluating these presentations against a variety of criteria and will develop several satellite concepts for FalconSAT-6 using the best and most appropriate combinations of payloads. These satellite concepts will then be presented to several government agencies for funding de...
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Kavoshgar
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Iran's Aerospace Research Centre official announced on Tuesday that the country will launch its research rocket called Kavoshgar (Explorer) into space by the end of March 2010, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. "Iranian Kavoshgar rocket will be sent into the space by the end of t...
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