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NRO Spy satellite
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United Launch Alliance inked a $96 million deal to build and launch an Atlas 5 rocket for a future mission to carry a spy satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, officials announced Thursday. The rocket will fly from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg; however, the launch date hasnt been determ...
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New Mars rover
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A full-size prototype of the newest Mars rover is now on display at the Fleet Science Center. The new rover is still nameless, according to museum officials but K-12 students can enter a contest to name the vehicle. The winning student will win a trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, where the...
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CREAM IV experiment
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NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research. The super-pressure balloon ultimately will carry large scientific experiments to the brink...
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ARCADE 2 Instrument
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Title: The ARCADE 2 Instrument Authors: J. Singal, D.J. Fixsen, A. Kogut, S. Levin, M. Limon, P. Lubin, P. Mirel, M. Seiffert, T. Villela, E. Wollack, C.A. Wuensche The second generation Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission (ARCADE 2) instrument is a balloon-bo...
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Luna missions
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In August 1976, four years after the final Apollo mission, a 6-tonne spacecraft landed on the moon in the Mare Crisium. Over the course of a single day, it sent back spectacular pictures of the lunar surface, gathered rock samples and then blasted off for the journey home. [url=http://en.wikipedia...
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Angola telecom satellite
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According to the Angolan Minister of Telecom and Information Technologies Jose Carvalho da Rocha, Angola is to launch a multi-sectoral support telecom satellite in January 2009. During his ministry's yearend meeting, the minister said Angola "will start in January 2009 the commercial l...
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Fengyun-2-06 satellite
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China has successfully orbited its third meteorological satellite, the Fengyun-2-06, the country's central television CCTV reported on Tuesday. The satellite was launched from the XiChang Satellite Launch Centre, in southwest China at 08:54 a.m. local time (00:54 a.m. GMT) on board a Chang Zh...
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HOTBIRD 9
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Arianespace Flight 186 Set for End November With Eutelsat's HOT BIRD(TM) 9 and W2M Satellites Arianespace and Eutelsat communications confirm that the upcoming launch of the Ariane 5 ECA will orbit Eutelsat's HOT BIRD(TM) 9 and W2M satellites. The launch of Flight 186 is planned to take plac...
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AMERICOM 14 Launch
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An ILS Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage is to launch the Lockheed Martin-built AMERICOM 14 communications spacecraft, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 23:18 GMT, March 14th 2008.
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Delta II rocket body Re-entry (SkyMed 3)
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A Delta rocket II Rocket Body that was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on the 25th October, 2008, for the COSMO-SkyMed 3 mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 21st December, 2008 @ 17:37 GMT ± 48 hours. Period: 92.09 Inclination: 98.36° Apogee: 568 Perigee...
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Soyuz Landing Anomaly
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Russian space engineers think they are closing in on the cause of two dangerous off-course Soyuz landings in the past year, but recent activities suggest there is still a dispute about the leading theory. Top space officials have asserted that the problemthe failure of one or more explosive bolts...
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ISRO, Russian Space Agency deal
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Russian Space Agency have joined hands to share critical equipments for the Indian Man Mission to the Moon. India and Russia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote joint activities in the field of human space flight programme du...
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NASA's Constellation Program
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NASA will host a media teleconference Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 4 p.m. EST, to brief reporters about recent developments and ongoing progress in NASA's Constellation Program.
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When a U.S. space shuttle rockets to the International Space Station in October, it will carry something very personal belonging to more than 800 students and faculty of Robert Abbott Middle School. The Waukegan school body will no doubt be watching via satellite when their digitised signatures t...
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Moonlite mission
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Tests on a UK-led technology at the heart of a planned Moon mission have been a spectacular success according to the scientists involved in the project. Three penetrator missiles were fired into a sand bunker in Wales, designed to mimic the lunar surface. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/sci/...
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