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Sentinel-3B
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The heat is on for Sentinel-3B While the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite is in orbit delivering a wealth of information about our home planet, engineers are putting its twin, Sentinel-3B, through a series of vigorous tests before it is shipped to the launch site next year. Read more
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Earth-i
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Earth-i plans space video network A British company has announced its intention to launch a big constellation of Earth observation satellites. A prototype spacecraft will go up later this year for testing, with the expectation that a further five platforms will follow in 2019. Earth-i, based in G...
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Beidou (Compass) navigation satellite
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China launches advanced satellite navigation positioning system China on Saturday launched a national satellite navigation and positioning system. It is the largest in the country and boasts the widest coverage. Li Weisen, deputy director of the National Administration of Surveying, Mappin...
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ESRO-2B satellite
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ESRO-2 control room On 17 May 1968, the ESRO-2B satellite was launched by a Scout-B rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA, and became the first mission controlled by teams at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany. Renamed the International Radiation...
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Inmarsat-5 F4
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Inmarsat rides SpaceX Falcon into orbit Inmarsat, the UK's biggest space company, has boosted its global broadband network with the launch of a fourth high-frequency satellite. The I-5 F4, which will service the voice, video and data needs of remote and on-the-move customers, was taken into orbi...
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Lunar CubeSats
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Winning plans for CubeSats to the Moon If you could fly a CubeSat to the Moon, what could such a tiny satellite do there? ESA posed this question - and now four proposals will be studied in more detail for possible flight over the coming decade. These miniature missions variously involve probing lunar...
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CHEOPS Project
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The CHaracterising ExoPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) is a proposed ESA Small Mission. CHEOPS will be the first mission dedicated to search for transits by means of ultrahigh precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets. By being able to point at nearly any location on the sky, it...
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GSAT-9
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ISRO to launch South Asia Satellite on May 5 According to ISRO sources, the launch of this communication satellite (GSAT-9) is scheduled for May 5 on board the space agency's rocket GSLV-09 from Sriharikota spaceport. Read more
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Koreasat 7
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Spaceport protest delays rocket launch in French Guiana The launch of a French rocket from a space centre in French Guiana has been delayed after workers erected barricades as part of a labour dispute. The Ariane 5 rocket was due to take a South Korean satellite and a Brazilian satellite into orbit la...
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NROL-76
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SpaceX delays launch for classified U.S. gov't payload U.S. space firm SpaceX has pushed back its first launch of a U.S military satellite after a "sensor issue" with the rocket triggered a 24-hour delay on Sunday. Liftoff, which is now targeted on Monday between 7 and 9 a.m. EDT (1100 and 1300 GMT) fr...
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Satellite Constellations
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Mega-constellation satellites will need 'rapid disposal' The operators of proposed satellite mega-constellations can greatly mitigate the risk of future collisions by rapidly de-orbiting their spacecraft at the end of service. On the other hand, doing only the bare minimum required by inter...
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Gaofen 5 satellite
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Latest satellite to aid environmental protection China will launch the Gaofen 5 high-resolution Earth observation satellite in September to help with environmental protection efforts, an official overseeing the program said. Tong Xudong, a senior official at the State Administration of Sci...
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GSLV-09
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ISRO to launch South Asia Satellite on May 5 According to ISRO sources, the launch of this communication satellite (GSAT-9) is scheduled for May 5 on board the space agency's rocket GSLV-09 from Sriharikota spaceport. Read more
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Shijian 13
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China to launch first high-throughput communications satellite in April China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday. The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20...
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SES 10 satellite
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SpaceX set to launch 'used rocket' California's SpaceX company expects to make a piece of history later when it re-flies a Falcon rocket. The window for a lift-off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center opens at 18:27 EDT (22:27 GMT; 23:27 BST). Read more
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