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DLA-1 and DLA-2 satellites
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Space Systems/Loral, a provider of commercial satellites, today announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide two high-power satellites to Intelsat for Direct-to-Home (DTH) television service in Latin America. The two satellites will be operated by Intelsat, which will provide the...
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ShiJian 11-04
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Chinese authorities have confirmed that the Shi Jian 11-04 "experimental satellite" did not achieve orbit due to a problem with the rocket launcher. The causes of the anomaly was not disclosed. The Portuguese website Em Orbita was the first to reveal the news which was later confirmed b...
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Icesat-2
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NASA Selects Contractor For Icesat-2 Spacecraft NASA has selected Orbital Science Corporation of Dulles, Va., to build the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) spacecraft. Under the terms of the $135 million delivery order (including the spacecraft and all associated optio...
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Kwangmyongsong-1
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Kwangmyongsong-1 (Bright Star 1) was a satellite allegedly launched by North Korea on 31 August 1998. While the North Korean government claimed that the launch was successful making North Korea the ninth country to launch a satellite, no objects were ever tracked in orbit from the launch, and outs...
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Marcopolo 1 satellite
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Marcopolo 1, Sirius W, originally Sirius 1, was launched on 27 August 1989. It was Hughes Space and Communication's first satellite. Marcopolo 1 was sold in December 1993 to Nordic Satellite AB of Sweden and operated until 2000 as Sirius 1 at 5°E. It was then moved to 13°W, and renamed Sirius W. It had 5...
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NigeriaSat-X satellite
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SSTL successfully launches two further Earth observation satellites SSTL's NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites were successfully launched today at 07:12:20 UTC onboard a Dnepr rocket from Yasny in southern Russia. The highly advanced Earth observation satellites will significantly...
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Special orbits
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Title: Five Special Types of Orbits Around Mars Authors: Xiaodong Liu, Hexi Baoyin, Xingrui Ma The abstract is additional with respect to the paper published in JGCD. Ordinary Earth satellites are usually placed into five categories of special orbits: sun-synchronous orbits, orbits at the crit...
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EDUSAT satellite
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A Kosmotras Dnepr rocket successfully launched the EDUSAT satellite along with other payloads at 07:12 GMT, 17th August, 2011, from Yasny in southern Russia.EDUSAT
1 37788U 11044A 11230.77811885 -.00000053 00000-0 00000+0 129
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APRIZESAT 5 satellite
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A Kosmotras Dnepr rocket successfully launched the APRIZESAT 5 satellite along with other payloads at 07:12 GMT, 17th August, 2011, from Yasny in southern Russia.APRIZESAT 5
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APRIZESAT 6 satellite
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A Kosmotras Dnepr rocket successfully launched the APRIZESAT 6 satellite along with other payloads at 07:12 GMT, 17th August, 2011, from Yasny in southern Russia.APRIZESAT 6
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SICH 2 satellite
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A Kosmotras Dnepr rocket successfully launched the SICH 2 satellite along with other payloads at 07:12 GMT, 17th August, 2011, from Yasny in southern Russia.SICH 2
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Haiyang-2 satellite
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China has successfully launched a new satellite from the Taiyuan Launch Centre to monitor the maritime environment. The orbiter 'Haiyang-2' was boosted by a Long March-4B carrier rocket from the launch centre in the city of Taiyuan in Shanxi Province. The satellite, the second in the past four day...
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Marcopolo 2 Satellite
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Marcopolo 2 was launched on 18 August 1990. It had 5 Ku band transponders. It was sold in July 1992 to Telenor of Norway and renamed Thor 1. It was located at 0.8°W. It was switched off in January 2002, and in November of that year it was moved to 7.4°W and reactivated with digital test signals broadcastin...
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An Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA rocket is scheduled to launch the ASTRA 1N and BSat 3c / JCSAT 110R communications satellites from Kourou, French Guiana, on the 29th June, 2011. Astra 1N will be deployed at the 28.2° east orbital slot. Astra 1N is expected to remain at this position until the arrival of Ast...
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ARISSat-1 satellite
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Two Russian cosmonauts will leave the confines of the International Space Station on Aug.3 to move a cargo boom from one airlock to another, install a prototype laser communications system and deploy an amateur radio micro-satellite. Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov and Alexander S...
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