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Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft
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An Atlas 5 rocket launch is being delayed about a week to allow teams more time to replace a fuel valve that froze up during the failed launch of a similar rocket earlier this year. The Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS F1) military communications satellite will be launched at 8:10 p.m. Sept. 21 from Launch C...
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Polar satellite mission
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The U.S. space agency says its Polar satellite has concluded its 12-year mission to study the Northern and Southern lights. When the Polar satellite was launched in February 1996, the plan was for a two-year mission to study the lights that form a r...
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AMOS-3 Satellite
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Space International Services and Sea Launch Company have announced the award of a firm launch contract with Israel Aircraft Industries, Ltd., utilising the Land Launch system.
The delivery-in-orbit (DIO) agreement requires a Zenit-3SLB vehicle to launch the AMOS-3 communications satel...
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Tianlian I Launch
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The Chinese communications relay satellite "Tianlian I" aboard a Long March-3C carrier rocket was successfully launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 11:35 p.m. (Beijing Time), 25th April, 2008. The satellite, developed by Chin...
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5G comms nanosats
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A Russian Soyuz rocket is to launch the Expedition 16 crew and a Malaysian tourist aboard a Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 13:21 GMT (9:21 a.m. EDT), 10th October. The capsule is to remain at the station for about six months...
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BNSC and SSTL Satellite Competition
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Six teams of students are vying for the chance to build an experiment for a satellite that will launch in 2010. The semi-finalists are now required to work up a final proposal for submission in August; an outright winner will be selected by judges in the Autumn. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/s...
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Israel will launch its next spy satellite aboard India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rather than their own state produced Shavit rocket.
Israel's Ministry of Defence and state-owned satellite producer Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd (IAI) are nearing conclusion with their Indi...
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CU-Boulder's Sounding Rocket
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The University of Colorado at Boulder's own version of "The Rocket Boys" (and Girls) will help to launch a CU payload on a sounding rocket to measure ultraviolet radiation from the sun from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico April 10. [url=http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/daf...
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Progress 28P launch
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The 28th Progress cargo ship will launch atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 13:02 GMT (8:02 EST) 5th February 2008. The Progress M-63/28P will re-supply the International Space Station. 4th February 2008-- Progress M-62/27P undocking (10:30 GMT) &...
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NAVSTAR GPS 2R-17 (M4)
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A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket carrying a GPS satellite lifted off at 8:23 a.m. EDT. "Looking good," said the commentator as the solid rocket motors separated. The spacecraft will separate after 68 minutes and the modernised GPS satellite will be in service within two weeks. [u...
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Mystery space junk
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A cattle farmer in Australia's remote northern outback on Friday said he had found a giant ball of twisted metal, which he believes is space junk from a rocket used to launch communications satellites. Farmer James Stirton found the odd-shaped ball last year on his 40,000 hectare property, about 80...
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COPV found in Brazil
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Mysterious object found in Brazil is from space People commenting on the blogosphere came out with the best explanation (to this moment) about the origin of this unusual object that was found in a farm in central Brazil this weekend. Many people are saying the object is a Composite Overwrapped Pres...
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Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Monday, Feb. 18, as preparations move forward for the STS-123 mission. Endeavour is targeted to lift off March 11 on a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. The first motion of the...
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SAR-Lupe 4 Satellite
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A Russian Kosmos 3M rocket will launch the German SAR-Lupe 4 radar reconnaissance satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, on March 27th, 2008.
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