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Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Project
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NASA Tests Future Mars Landing Technology Landing payloads that are large enough to bring humans and sustain their survival on the Red Planet is still beyond our capability. The same parachute design developed for the Viking missions in the 1970s has been used for all U.S. missions to the surface o...
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Russian space officials said Monday they are preparing two unmanned missions to Mars before 2015.
Georgy Polischuk, director general and designer general of the Lavochkin production and science association said the first mission is scheduled for October 2009.
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Gemini 4 mission
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Gemini 4 (officially Gemini IV) was a manned space flight in NASA's Gemini program, launched on the 3rd June, 1965. It was the 2nd manned Gemini flight, the 10th manned American flight and the 18th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km). It was crewed by James McDivitt and Edward...
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Europa Jupiter System Mission
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Ambitious plans to send probes to the outer planets are being considered by US and European space officials. One proposal envisages sending an orbiter to Saturn which would also drop a lander and a balloon on to the haze-shrouded moon Titan. The other sees two separate orbiters despatched to invest...
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Lightsail-1 Spacecraft
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Wide-eyed Proba-V will track global vegetation daily The small but powerful camera of ESA's Proba-V mission can fit on a single laboratory table for testing. But when it reaches orbit, this compact sensor will deliver a daily overview of virtually all vegetation growth across Earth. Daily global...
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) announces the passing of a significant technical milestone in the development of its Dragon spacecraft with the successful arc jet testing of PICA-X high performance heat shield material. Subjected to temperatures as high as 1850 degrees Celsius (...
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For over 400 years, astronomers have studied the Sun from afar. Now, a team at European Space Agency, with backing from NASA, is planning to send two space missions to explore the brightest star. According to the ESA astronomers, the aim of the space missions is to get closer to the centre of the Sun, wh...
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ULA Vulcan rocket
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ULA unveils Vulcan rocket concept The company that conducts most of America's rocket launches has released details of its next generation vehicle. The concept will be known as Vulcan, and it is expected to start operations in 2019. United Launch Alliance - the joint venture between Boeing and Lock...
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Euclid mission
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SSTL wins role in the Euclid mission SSTL has secured a 300,000 euro contract to undertake radiation testing as part of the European Space Agency's Euclid mission. The 9-month contract provides for radiation testing of the charge-coupled devices (CCDs) onboard the Euclid spacecraft and include...
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Far East Spaceport
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Building of launching site for a new manned spacecraft is planned for no earlier than 2020 in the Far East. "I'm absolutely sure that a new civil space port for launchings a new manned spacecraft should be built in the Far East no earlier than 2020" - Anatoliy Perminov, Head of Roscosmos. [...
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Optical No. 5 Satellite
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Aiming to drastically beef up the performance of the nation's intelligence satellites, the government will embark on a research and development program in fiscal 2009 to develop an optical information-gathering satellite that will have one of the world's highest resolutions. The envisioned s...
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The four spacecraft of ESA`s Cluster fleet have reached their greatest distance from each other in the course of their mission to study Earth`s magnetosphere in three dimensions.
This operation, marking the fifth anniversary of Cluster in space, transforms Cluster in the first `...
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