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OAO-B
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The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory B (OAO-B) carried a 38-inch UV telescope, and should have provided spectra of fainter objects than had previously been observable. The booster rocket failed to separate from the satellite following its launch on 3 November 1970, and the satellite burned up...
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Luch 5B satellite
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Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager
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A Next-Generation X-Ray Telescope Ready to Fly At the beginning of November, 2012 a NASA mission called FOXSI (for Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager) will launch from White Sands, N.M. to study these nanoflares. To do so, it will make use of a state-of-the-art x-ray telescope that will be able to fo...
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Orbital motions
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Title: Objects orbiting the Earth in deep resonance Authors: J. C. Sampaio, E. Wnuk, R. Vilhena de Moraes, S. S. Fernandes The increasing number of objects orbiting the Earth justifies the great attention and interest in the observation, spacecraft protection and collision avoidance. These stu...
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Prospero satellite
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The Prospero satellite, also known as X-3, is the only satellite to be successfully launched by a British rocket on the 28th October, 1971. It has the COSPAR (NSSC ID) designation 1971-093A, and the US Space Command satellite catalogue number 05580. The satellite was originally to be called Puck, b...
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Intelsat II F-1
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First Australia to UK Satellite Hook-up in 1966 Spoiler The world's second planned commercial communication satellite Intelsat II F-1 was launched October 26, 1966, but failed to achieve geosynchronous orbit. Despite it...
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SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform
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SwRI to build miniature solar observatory for manned suborbital flight Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received funding from NASA to build a miniature, portable solar observatory for developing and testing innovative instrumentation in suborbital flight. The SwRI Solar Instrument...
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GPS 2F-3 satellite
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A ULA Delta 4 rocket is scheduled to launch the GPS 2F-3 navigation satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 12:10 UT 4th October, 2012. See more (.mov)
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GOES 1
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GOES 1, designated GOES-A and SMS-C prior to entering service, was a weather satellite operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The launch occurred at 22:40:00 GMT on October 16, 1975, and left the satellite in a geosynchronous transfer orbit. [url=http:/...
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Shijian-9
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China launches Long March 2C carrier rocket in N China The Long March 2C carrier rocket carrying two satellites blasts off from the launch pad at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, Oct. 14, 2012. Satellite A and Satellite B, which form Shijian (...
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Intelsat-23
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The spacecraft will provide communications services for the Americas, Caribbean, Western Europe, Africa and selected islands of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Designed for a useful life of at least 15 years, the IS-23 satellite will be located in orbit at 307 degrees East Longitude following i...
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Ariel 1 satellite
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Ariel 1, also known as UK-1 and S-55, was the first British satellite, and the first satellite in the Ariel programme. Its launch in 1962 made the United Kingdom the third country to operate a satellite, after the Soviet Union and the USA. It was constructed in United States by NASA, under an agreement...
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Pioneer 1
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On October 11, 1958, Pioneer 1 became the first spacecraft launched by NASA, the newly formed space agency of the United States. Due to a launch vehicle malfunction, the spacecraft attained only a ballistic trajectory and never reached the Moon. Read more
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ORBCOMM OG2 satellite
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OG2 satellite's insertion orbit lower than planned ORBCOMM Inc., a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced that the first prototype of its second generation of satellites (OG2) was launched on the Cargo Re-Su...
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FITSAT1 satellite
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Satellite swarm released from ISS Five small satellites were released from the International Space Station from late Thursday night to early Friday morning Japan time in the first such experiment to employ a robotic arm, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said. [url=http://www.japantime...
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