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Minuteman III Launch
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A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile configured with a National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, joint-test assembly, launched at 3:04 a.m. May 22 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The launch was an extended range test which proved the weapon system's reliability and acc...
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Shiyan 3 Satellite
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China has successfully launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket with the Shiyan 3 and Chuangxin 1-02 Satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gansu Province, at 00:15 UT (08:15 Beijing time), 5th November, 2008. The satellites were successfully inserted into orbi...
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CESAR
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Germany's CESAR crowned king of rovers in ESAs Robotics Challenge A robot rover designed by a Bremen university team has won an ESA contest to retrieve soil samples from a lunar-style terrestrial crater. Eight student teams fielded rovers during the event, their progress monitored by an advanced...
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DragonLab
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is introducing a new commercial product called DragonLab, a free-flying, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurised payloads to and from space. DragonLab will launch to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Dr...
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Marisat-F2 satellite
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The maritime telecommunications Marisat-FII satellite (Maritime Communications Satellite C) is starting to fail. Due to the predicted loss of control, and potential hazard to other satellites in the orbital slot, the operators have decided to decommission and eventually deorbit the satelli...
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EAS Re-entry
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The 635-kilogram Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) that was jettisoned from the ISS by Expedition 15 crewmember Clayton Anderson on the 23 July, 2007, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 2nd November, 2008 @ 20:40 GMT ± 24 hours. Inclination 51.6° Revolution Number 7450 Predi...
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Japan H2-A rocket
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Japan H2-A rocket nearer commercial satellite launch Japan's space programme took a step towards the first commercial launch by its domestic H2-A rocket when South Korea's space agency chose Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd on Friday as a preferred bidder to launch its satellite. [url=http://i...
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Satellites
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Satellites helping aid workers in Honduras Humanitarian aid workers responding to devastating flooding in Honduras have received assistance from space, with satellite images of affected areas provided rapidly following activation of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters....
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ASTRA 1M satellite
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SES ASTRA, an SES company, today announced that its new ASTRA 1M satellite has been fully integrated into the fairing of the launch vehicle, a Proton Breeze M rocket, and is ready for launch on 6 November (local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite built by EADS ASTRIUM on a...
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ESA’s Lunar Robotics Challenge
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The Teide volcanic peak on the island of Tenerife acted as a mock-up of the Moon landscape last week, with eight European student teams tuning, testing and driving their lunar rovers in preparation for a robotics competition that took place during the dark nights of last weekend. Roving on the Moon i...
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Kopernikus mission
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Europe's flagship Kopernikus mission faces potential delays. An ambitious European proposal to launch an orbiting Earth-monitoring system called Kopernikus is facing possible delays to the launches of its component satellites after Italy and France demanded that costs be cut. A flurry of neg...
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COSMO-SkyMed 3
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A United Launch Alliance Delta II (7420-10C) rocket is to launch the third Italian COSMO-SkyMed (COnstellation of small Satellites for the Mediterranean basin Observation) 3 radar Earth-imaging satellite from SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base at 02:28 GMT, 25th October 2008. The rocket will...
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Shijian-6 research satellites
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China has successfully launched two satellites with a Long March-4B carrier rocket early Saturday morning. A Long March-4B rocket carrying two 03 Group Shijian-6 research satellites blasted off from the launch pad at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, in north China's Shanxi Province, on Oct...
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SS-19 test launch
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Russian Space Forces launched a RS-18 (UR-100NUTTH, SS-19 Stiletto) intercontinental ballistic missile from a silo launcher at Baikonur at 11:35 UTC on November 9, 2006.
"The ICBM was test-fired from a silo as part of an RS-18 service life extension program" - Alexei Kuznetsov, Spac...
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Astra 1C satellite
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The Astra 1C satellite which was launched on the 12th May 1993 from the Kourou launch site has been decommissioned. TLE Data ASTRA 1C 1 22653U 93031A 08298.77581502 .00000005 00000-0 10000-3 3247 2 22653 002.0070 081.2492 0003548 134.1355 099.4691 01.00273353 51690 Period: 1437.5...
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