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Celestis Voyager deep space mission
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Celestis, Inc., the pioneer and global leader in Memorial Spaceflights, announced today that it will launch the remains of late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and his wife, actress Majel Barrett Roddenberry - "The First Lady of Star Trek" - on a mission into deep space, thus fulfill...
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KOSMOS-1818
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One of the most long-lasting satellites that the Soviet Union placed into orbit some 21 years ago has now started acting up, spilling a trace of unidentified substances along its orbit, American observatories report. The January issue of the journal Orbital Debris Quarterly News details the natu...
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Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition
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Entries are now being welcomed for the 4th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition. The competition seeks to find the best solution to an interplanetary trajectory problem. It has proved a unique playground for researchers to test new ideas and to compare methods. Space travel can often be a...
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Lunar Prospecting Robot
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The cool, rocky slopes of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is Hawaii's highest mountain, will serve as a stand-in for the moon as researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, NASA and other organizations test a robot designed for lunar prospecting. During the field experim...
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Vietnam plans to launch its first orbit satellite March 29, 2008, reducing the country's reliance on leased foreign satellites for its communication traffic, an official said Tuesday. The satellite, dubbed Vinasat, is being built by US's Lockheed Martin and is scheduled to be launched from Fran...
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A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket carrying a classified National Reconnaissance Office payload won't launch until next year, according to the NRO. The launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 37, which had been targeted for next Tuesday, is now anticipated in mid...
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Astra 5A Satellite
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On Oct 27 SES president and CEO Romain Bausch had said that Astra 5A, which should have been operating from 31.5 deg East, had suffered a few problems and that "human error" could not be ruled out. Now, happily, Astra 5A (also known as Sirius 2) has been recovered and is back on station, and wo...
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Kosmos 1367
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A Molniya-M SL-6 Stage 3 Rocket Body that was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on the 20th May 1982, for the Kosmos 1367 (US-K #26) mission is predicted to re-enter the earths atmosphere on the 18th January 2009 @ 08:16 GMT ± 8 hours. TLE Data pre>SL-6 RB(2) 1 13215U 82045D 09017.78779440 .12771...
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Soyuz 4
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Forty years ago, on January 16, 1969, two Russian spacecraft (Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5) carried out the first docking between two manned spacecraft and transfer of crew between the craft. The Soyuz 4/5 mission was a critical milestone for the future of manned space missions, the rendezvous and docking of...
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Earth observation science missions
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With three Earth Explorer satellites set to launch this year, another three under construction and up to three more about to be selected for feasibility study, 2009 promises to be a significant year for ESA's contribution to Earth science - paving the way to a clearer understanding of how our planet...
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A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket will launch the 23rd and final Defence Support Program missile-warning satellite, from SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on April 1st.
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Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine
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A technology development engine that may help NASA safely return astronauts to the lunar surface has successfully completed its third round of testing. The goal of these tests is to reduce risk and advance technology for a reliable and robust rocket engine that could enable America's next moon lan...
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Fengyun-3
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China is likely to launch a new polar-orbiting meteorological satellite, Fengyun-3 (FY-3), this autumn to improve its global weather monitoring capacity, the China News Service has reported.
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Satellite imagery
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Researchers at Sony and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the US, have developed a wide-angle camera that can image a 10 kilometre square area from an altitude of 7.5 kilometres with a resolution better than 50 centimetres per pixel. Generally, the field of view of high-resolution images ta...
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Yaogan-V Launch
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China is scheduled to launch a new remote sensing satellite "Yaogan V" on Monday at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The satellite is to be launched into the space on a Long March-4B carrier rocket "at an appropriate time", China News Serv...
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