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Maracati 1 Mission
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The Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) on Friday launched a rocket to test the facilities at the Alcantara Launching Centre, the AEB said. The launching, which took place on Friday afternoon, was "a complete success", AEB said in a statement. The mission was code-named Maracati 1 under a part...
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North Korea missile test
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North Korea has test-fired several missiles towards the Sea of Japan. South Korea's defence ministry said the launches appeared to be part of a routine military exercise by the secretive communist state. Reports from Japan and South Korea said that the tests involved a number of short-range anti-...
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Global View of Ocean Health
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NASA Briefing Provides New Global View of Ocean Health NASA will hold a media teleconference on Thursday, May 28, at 1 p.m. EDT, to present the first-ever global views of the health of marine plant life. Using a new measure of the health of phytoplankton in the world's oceans made possible by data from...
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Matroshka
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The Phantom Torso is back, and he has quite a story to tell. He's an armless, legless, human-shaped torso, a mannequin that looks like he's wrapped in a mummy's bandages. Scientists at the European Space Agency call him Matroshka, and like his NASA counterpart Fred, this mannequin is an intrepid spa...
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Meridian 2 satellite
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The Meridian 2 reconnaissance satellite is scheduled to liftoff atop a Soyouz-2.1 launch vehicle on the 21st May, 21:53:53 GMT from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. According to a spokesperson for RF Ministry of communications, the strategic communications spacecraft is planned to enter a 12 - ho...
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Navigational Satellites
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A government report says the accuracy of GPS signals could deteriorate in the next few years because of delays in satellite launches, but the Air Force says it has plenty of ways of keeping up the navigation system increasingly relied on by drivers and cellphone users. The Government Accountabilit...
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ORBCOMM satellites
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ORBCOMM Inc., a global satellite data communications company focused on providing two way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced that it intends to launch six satellites; the Coast Guard Concept Demonstration satellite and five Quick Launch satellites on June 19, 2008 fro...
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Anti-Electron Sub-Orbital Payload
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University of Delaware researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged particles in the universe. The balloon, which is 396 feet tall and 459 feet in diameter when fully inf...
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CBERS 2B Satellite
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A Chinese Chang Zheng (Long March) 4B rocket will launch the CBERS 2B (Zi yuan 1-02B) remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 02:00 GMT on Sept. 19, 2007. The Satellite will be the third China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite, which both countries will s...
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Sajjil-2 missile test
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Iran says it has successfully test launched a mid-range surface-to-surface missile, state media has reported. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Sajjil-2 missile used "advanced technology" and had "landed exactly" on the unspecified target. [url=http://news.b...
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NASA research balloon
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Arizonans see UFO, NASA says it's a balloon NASA officials say it wasn't an alien spacecraft people in Arizona and New Mexico spotted floating far above them in the clear blue sky, just a giant research balloon. Read more
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Marco Polo mission
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European scientists and engineers are working on a potential new mission to bring back material from an asteroid. The venture, known as Marco Polo, could launch in the next decade, and would be designed to learn more about how our Solar System evolved. The plan is to select a small asteroid - less than...
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Progress 32P/M-66 launch
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A Soyuz-U rocket with the progress 32P/M-66 (366) is to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on the 10th February, 2009, at 05: 49 UTC (08:49: 44 msk). The Progress cargo ship is to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. Docking above the territory of South Siberia is sched...
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Maido No. 1 Satellite
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Maido No. 1, a satellite launched in January to observe lightning has photographed itself in orbit with the Earth in the background. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency sent a copy of the image to Astro Technology SOHLA, the association of manufacturing firms that developed the satellite. [ur...
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Dnepr rocket anniversary
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SSTL and ISC Kosmotras are celebrating 10 years of successful cooperation, since the SSTL minisatellite UoSAT-12 made history as the first successful orbital injection by the Dnepr launch vehicle in April 1999. "This occasion is a remarkable event in the activity of our two companies. For S...
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