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Orba
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Orba, also known as X-2, was intended to be the first satellite launched by a British rocket. It was launched at 00:34 GMT on 2 September 1970, atop a Black Arrow rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, but failed to reach orbit after the second stage of the carrier rocket shut down 13 seconds early. Read m...
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Galileo 5 and 6 satellites
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Galileo satellites go into wrong, lower orbit - Esa The European Space Agency (Esa) says the latest two satellites for Europe's version of the American GPS satellite navigation system have not gone into the correct orbit. However, it says the fifth and sixth satellites launched from French Guiana...
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Chasqui I
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Two Russian cosmonauts have set off on a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) to launch a nano-satellite. Flight engineers Oleg Artemyev and Aleksandr Skvortsov launched a small satellite named Chasqui I. Read more
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WorldView 3 satellite
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A commercial Earth-imaging satellite will ride to space aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2014, the second nongovernment mission acquired for the West Coast booster in the past six months. Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lock...
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TechDemoSat-1
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SSTL's TechDemoSat-1 to demonstrate UK innovation in space Small satellite pioneer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has today been awarded a grant to commence the design phase of a national technology demonstration satellite called TechDemoSat-1. The UK's Technology Strategy Board an...
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Kosmos 1275
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The loss of Cosmos 1275 has always been looked upon as the best contender for a satellite being destroyed due to the impact of an untracked piece of space debris: this hypothesis has been given support by a reported Russian statement. However, the case has yet to be proven. Cosmos 1275 was a military na...
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Aausat satellite
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Aausat4 The miniature Aausat satellite undergoes repeated temperature variations in a vacuum chamber, cooling the CubeSat to ~10°C and heating it to +45°C for more than two weeks. This harsh baptism will make sure that it can cope with the conditions in space. Aausat is a 10x10x10 cm satellite des...
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Badr-1 satellite
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Badr-1 was a first digital communication satellite launched by Pakistan's SUPARCO in 1990. Badr-1 Communication Satellite was Pakistan's first indigenously developed Digital Communications Experimental satellite. Badr-1 which means "New Moon-1" in Urdu language; the satelli...
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Orbcomm OG2 satellite
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An Orbcomm OG2 communications satellite is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on the 15th June 2014. The launch window extends from 00:00 to 00:53 UT (16th)
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PANGU
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Title: PANGU: A High Resolution Gamma-ray Space Telescope Author: Xin Wu, Meng Su, Alessandro Bravar, Jin Chang, Yizhong Fan, Martin Pohl, Roland Walter We describe the instrument concept of a high angular resolution telescope dedicated to the sub-GeV (from >10 MeV to >1 GeV) gamma-ray ph...
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Our World - 1967
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First live, international, satellite television production, 1967 Our World - 1967 Our World was the first live, international, satellite television production, which was broadcast on 25 June 1967. 14 countries participated in the pro...
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Persona N2 satellite
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket is scheduled to launch the Persona N2 reconnaissance satellite (Kosmos 2486) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, on the 7th June 2013. Persona is a class of Russian reconnaissance satellites, derived from the Resurs DK class of remote sensing satellite, itself derived from...
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Sea Launch on Track to Loft Intelsat 19 The Condock V sea-based transport vessel carrying the Zenit-2S launch vehicle designated for Intelsat 19 departed the port at Oktyabrsky, Ukraine on February 17, 2012 and is scheduled to arrive pier-side at Sea Launch's Home Port facility in Long Beach, Cali...
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NROL-33
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ULA ATLAS V NROL-33 Launch Coverage Spoiler
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Express-AM4R
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UFOs suspected to be rocket debris A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying an Express-AM4R communications satellite crashed outside of Kazakhstan's territory on Friday, about nine minutes after lift-off, Russia media outlet ITAR-Tass reported. The crash was likely caused by a failure in one of the...
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