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Project Nova
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A group of students from the University of Cambridge who plan on launching a rocket into space for less than £1,000 have taken the first steps towards achieving their ambitious goal.
Carl Morland, Henry Hallam and Robert Fryers, all from the Department of Engineering have successfully sent a b...
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IS-802 satellite Fails
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Intelsat, Ltd. announced today that its IS-802 satellite, located at 33° E, experienced a sudden and unexpected anomaly on September 22, 2006, at approximately 00:27 GMT Friday, (8:27 p.m. E.T.)
The Intelsat satellite control centre is communicating with the satellite and the satellite is...
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Japan's Information Gathering Satellite
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A Japanese H-2A rocket will launch Japan's third Information Gathering Satellite optical reconnaissance spacecraft from the Tanegashima launch complex, Japan, on 10th September, 2006.
The satellite will be able to resolve objects a metre or more in diameter. It's mission will probably be...
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Palapa A-I Satellite
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Some 30 years after buying its first satellite - Palapa A-I - which was mainly a product of foreign technology, Indonesia is finally to launch a self-made micro satellite in the second or third week of October.
The satellite has been taken to ISRO in India to be launched together with India's Cartos...
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Sineva Missile Test
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A R-29RM Sineva/SS-N-23 Sineva missile was successfully launched from a Project 667BDRM/Dela IV class strategic submarine of the Russian Northern Fleet.
The missile was launched from beneath arctic ice towards a target site on the Kanin Peninsula on September 9, 2006.
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SATCOMBw Satellite
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Arianespace to launch two SATCOMBw military communications satellites
Astrium has chosen Arianespace to launch the two SATCOMBw military communications satellites. These two satellites are part of a satcom system that Astrium is supplying to the German Ministry of Defence.
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INSAT-4C Satellite
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INSAT-4C, a satellite to facilitate communication, will soon be launched using the GSLV-5 and the assembly work is in progress.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair, speaking to reporters at Gummidipoondi near Chennai, India, said ISRO was also making prepar...
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São Félix do Xingu Space Junk
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A large piece of space junk has fallen on the city of São Félix do Xingu, that is 695 km from Belém.
A sphere made of something similar to stainless steel, measuring about 80 centimeters of diameter and approximately a meter high, fell on a farm on the outskirts of the city.
The owner found the object...
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Cosmos2422
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A Molniya-M rocket with 2BL upper stage is scheduled to launch the Kosmos-2422 spy satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on July 20
The launch period extends to July 31.
The US-KMO satellite will be part of an early-warning system.
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Saegheh Missile
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Iran has test fired tactical surface-to-sea missiles during Iranian military exercises over the weekend.
Iran's army launched the new, Iranian-built equipment in the south of the country, in the Kashan desert, about 150 miles southeast of Tehran, during military exercises,
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Its possible that a medium class RS-20 carrier rocket with several space vehicles ( Egyptsat 1 , Saudisat 3, SaudiComsat3/4/5/6/7 , AKS 1, AKS 2, Cubesat-Combo N-Cube 1)will launch on May 27 (aboard a Dnepr 1 rocket.)
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PLANETSPACE
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In a gargantuan move, Dr. Chrinjeev Kathuria and Geoff Sheerin of Canadian Arrow have joined hands to form a new corporation, PLANETSPACE to fulfil their dreams of taking passengers to space on a commercial basis.
The company targets, according to Kathuria, to fly around 2000 astronaut...
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TerreStar-2 MSS
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications Inc. , today announced that it has been awarded a contract to build the TerreStar-2 MSS (mobile satellite services) satellite for TerreStar Networks Inc. TerreStar's two satellite system, which includes the TerreStar-1...
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ADEPT Probe
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A dark horse has jumped into the race to solve the mystery of dark energy. NASA has given the nod to a radical new method to probe this unknown force, which is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate. It involves looking for the imprint of primordial sound waves.
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Syracuse 3B Satellite
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France will launch the Syracuse 3B military communications satellite, on August 11, 2006, from Kourou, French Guiana.
"The launch of the Syracuse 3B by an Ariane 5 ECA r...
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