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The Russian Federal Space Agency has completed the launch schedule of booster rockets over the next three months.
The launch timetable and the plan for preparing booster rockets and spacecraft was detailed and cleared with the Space Troops HQ on the 21 February.
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Iran has successfully tested a rocket early today. According to Mohsen Bahrami, head of Iran's Space Research Centre, Iran's Science and Technology and Defence Ministries had built the rocket. No other details were given. Iran in the past has announced that it wants to launch its own sat...
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Brazil-Ukraine space company to start operating this year An agreement between the two countries establishes that Brazil will open up its space base in Alcântara, in the northern Brazilian state of Maranhão, and Ukraine will provide its rocket launching technology. The objective is to enter the...
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HEX2 Launch
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HEX2 a success: 4-rocket aurora experiment launches from Poker Flat An experiment called HEX2 that consisted of four NASA suborbital sounding rockets, launched from Poker Flat Research Range during an aurora display over northern Alaska this morning. Each rocket emitted vapour trails in an exp...
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Black Brant XII Launch
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Yesterday, scientists from the University of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range, Skiland, Alaska, launched a rocket at 3:45am local time to study auroras: Rockets are launched sev...
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GOES I-M program
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), one of the world's leading satellite manufacturing and technology companies, today announced that it has recently completed satellite support operations for the award-winning Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) program, bringing...
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ROPA Mission
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Scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of New Hampshire have experiments ready on the launch rails at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, and another scientist is waiting in New Hampshire to launch an additional experiment from Poker Flat. The experiment...
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Minuteman Launch
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A Minuteman III LF-10 ICBM test launch (non-orbital) is scheduled for February 16th, from the Vandenberg AFB site, Ventura County, California.
The payload is one unarmed Mark 21 warhead.
The target impact area is the Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein in the central Pacific. The Air Force will anno...
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Spektr Rentgen-Gamma Satellite
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In 2011, Russia plans to orbit a new astrophysical observatory as part of its Federal Space Program (2006-2015). The project, called Spektr Rentgen-Gamma (SRG), integrates a Russian X-ray observatory (ART) and two European programs. ART is a combination of X-ray telescopes with coded aperture...
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Meridian reconnaissance satellite
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Russia has postponed the launch of a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia for 24 hours.
According to Alexei Kuznetsov, a Space Forces spokesperson, the launch of the carrier rocket with a Meridian reconnaissance satellite, originally scheduled for 08:40 UT...
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BLUEsat
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BLUEsat is an innovative low cost micro-satellite being built by students at UNSW. The satellite is scheduled to be completed and ready for launch by the end of 2008. BLUEsat has two main functionalities: · Primary: to provide a packet-store-and-forward service to the worldwide amateur radio com...
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Misr Sat 1 Launch
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Egypt will soon launch its first remote sensing satellite from a base in Kazakhstan. "We will soon complete the final stage for launching the first satellite for remote sensing and scientific research, 'Misr Sat 1'" - Ayman Desouqi, from the National Authority for Rem...
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Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre Test
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"A false alarm created the problem" which led to the stopping of the full-duration cryogenic stage test soon after it began on January 19 at the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) at Mahendragiri, near Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (...
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Enhanced Polar System
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Boeing and the U.S. Air Force MILSATCOM Systems Wing have exercised an $8.4 million contract option to activate Phase II of the Enhanced Polar System (EPS) payload study. Phase I began in July 2006 with a $1.5 million award to Boeing to define the next-generation communications payload for a polar-...
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Cosmos-Glonass Launch
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A Proton K-DM2 rocket will launch three spacecraft, M6, M7, M8, for the Glonass satellite navigation constellation, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on December 25th. -- Edited by Blobrana at 20:28, 2006-11-30
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