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COSMOS 2379
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Cosmos 2379 a Russian geosynchronous early-warning/reconnaissance satellite that was launched by a Proton-K rocket with a DM-2 final stage from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 24 August 2001 appears to be drifting from its prescribed orbital location at 24° West. This maybe a controlled transfer to...
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Solar Dynamic Observatory
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First Solar Dynamic Observatory Instrument Arrives at Goddard The University of Colorado at Boulder delivered the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE), first of three Solar Dynamic Observatory instruments, to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. EVE will measure ho...
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PWSat
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Having successfully launched several indigenous satellites in the past, the Indian Space Research Organisation is now in the process of launching the first of its new genre of micro-satellites weighing less than 100 kg. "Our main aim now is to make the satellite systems as compact as possibl...
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Extending Satellite life
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A new technique to save aging satellites promises to save millions of dollars by extending the life of communications spacecraft. A process developed by researchers from Purdue University and Lockheed Martin has already saved $60 million for unnamed broadcasters by extending the service life o...
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Russian moon mission
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Russia says it will send cosmonauts to the moon by 2025, with plans for a permanent manned base. Anatoly Perminov, head of the space agency, said a manned flight to Mars is scheduled for after 2035. He said Russia will have 103 satellites in orbit by the end of the year. Perminov said the first Russian wi...
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STS-120
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The Discovery astronauts will have a little something extra in their gear when the space shuttle blasts off in October: Luke Skywalker's original Jedi Light-sabre. Where are these transmissions coming from?
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Corpulent Stump Launch
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Enthusiasts are preparing to launch what is claimed to be the biggest rocket fired by amateurs in Britain. The craft, named the Corpulent Stump, is set to take off from a site near Largs in Ayrshire on Saturday as part of International Rocket Week. The rocket, built by Richard Brown and his team, weigh...
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NFIRE satellite
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The U.S. military is about to launch a small missile-watching satellite after years of quiet preparation and years of alarming reports from critics about its purpose. The NFIRE satellite is due to be sent into space early Monday from a Virginia launch pad. To the US Defence Department, which owns an...
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Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew are scheduled to continue the next phase of International Space Station assembly with an August 7 launch and an 11-day mission to the orbital outpost. The mission, STS-118, will deliver another truss (backbone) to the station and mark the first flight of missio...
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TacSat-1 cancellation
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Elon Musk has posted an update on SpaceX: Monster Progress Update (Mostly Falcon 9) - Aug.17.07. The US Air Force has decided not to launch TacSat-1. This, as Elon Musk puts it, "is not a reflection of the Pentagon's conf...
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SPACEWAY 3 Satellite
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Hughes Signs Contract with Arianespace to Launch SPACEWAY 3 Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) today announced that it has awarded a launch services contract to Arianespace for the launch of its next-generation SPACEWAY™ 3 satellite. The Ariane 5 heavy launcher will launch SPACEWAY 3 into geo...
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Initial processing of the dual-satellite payload for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission has been completed with the fuelling of Galaxy 17 at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Galaxy 17 was "topped off" in the S5B integration/fuelling high-bay, which is one of three main halls tha...
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MSG-1 satellite
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On 28 August at 19:45h local time (22:45h GMT), 2002, a European Ariane-5 launcher lifted off from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. The cylinder-shaped MSG 1 satellite will provide improved global weather data for Europe as a follow-on to the Meteosat spacec...
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NEEMO 13
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NASA Announces Next Undersea Exploration Mission NASA will send three astronauts and a Constellation Program aerospace engineer into the ocean depths off the Florida coast from Aug. 6 to 15, where they will test lunar exploration concepts and a suite of medical objectives for long-duration spac...
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Progress M-59 Launch
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A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the Progress 24P cargo spaceship to the International Space Station, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 02:12 GMT, on January 18th, 2007.
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