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NASA Announces Media Briefing on New Hurricane Mission NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 10, to discuss the upcoming Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, a constellation of eight microsatellites that will gather never-before-seen details on t...
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Galileo navigation satellite
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The next Galileo navigation satellite has touched down at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, to begin preparations for its launch in October. Cocooned within its protective, air-conditioned container, the satellite left the Thales Alenia Space Italy plant in Rome on Monday evening for nearb...
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Hongyan satellite system
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Telecom satellite system to encircle globe China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp plans to build a global real-time communications satellite network by 2020, a senior company executive said. Sun Weigang, chief engineer at the State-owned space giant, said the Hongyan satellite system wi...
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Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory
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NASA Announces First Geostationary Vegetation, Atmospheric Carbon Mission NASA has selected a first-of-its-kind Earth science mission that will extend our nation's lead in measuring key greenhouse gases and vegetation health from space to advance our understanding of Earth's natural excha...
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ISS-RapidScat
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NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to Space Station In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction. The ISS-R...
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Galileo 15,16,17 and 18 satellites
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Galileo system status Next Thursday 17 November at 10.06 Kourou Time/14.06 CET an Ariane 5 will launch Galileo satellites for the first time. Equipped with a specially designed dispenser, the European launcher will deploy four satellites: Galileo Sat 15,16,17 and 18. Read more
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Yunhai-1 satellite
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China launches Yunhai-1 meteorological satellite China sent into space a meteorological satellite, Yunhai-1, at 7:14 a.m. Saturday from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's gobi desert. Yunhai-1 was carried by a Long March-2D rocket, the 240th mission for the Long March ro...
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Cubesat Space Missions
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NASA Announces Next Opportunity For Cubesat Space Missions NASA is seeking proposals for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned to launch between 2012 and 2014. These miniature spacecraft, known as CubeSats, could be auxiliary payload on previously planned missions. CubeSats ar...
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Kuaizhou-1
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Kuaizhou-1 scheduled to launch in December China plans to launch Kuaizhou-1 solid-fuelled carrier rocket in December, a breakthrough in its commercial rocket launches. The news was announced Wednesday at the 11th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong...
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DMSP F-12 satellite
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U.S. Air Force weather satellite just broke up in orbit A third U.S. Air Force weather satellite that launched more than 20 years ago has broken up in orbit, Air Force Space Command disclosed Monday evening. Air Force officials confirmed the breakup of the long-retired Defence Meteorological Sate...
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POLAR satellite
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China's 'Little Bee' searches for strongest blasts in universe A square-shaped probe, dubbed "Little Bee" by Chinese scientists, is searching for gamma-ray bursts, the strongest explosions in the universe. The formal name of the probe, set atop China's first space lab Tiangong-2, is POLAR (an a...
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Gravitational Observatory
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Next step towards a gravitational-wave observatory in space Today, ESA has invited European scientists to propose concepts for the third large mission in its science programme, to study the gravitational Universe. A spaceborne observatory of gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of spac...
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FSW-3 3 satellite
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A section of a Chinese scientific satellite that was returning from orbit crashed into a four-story building in Penglai, southwest China's Sichuan Province, October 15, 2004. No one was injured in the accident. Read more
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Quantum Experiments at Space Scale satellite
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Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), nicknamed Micius or Mozi in honour of a fifth century BC Chinese philosopher, lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center using a Long March-2D (Chang Zheng-2D) launch vehicle at 1:40 AM local time (17:40 UTC) August 16, 2016. The satellite is in a 50...
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XPNAV-1
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China to launch world's first X-ray pulsar navigation satellite The China Academy of Space Technology has announced plans to launch the world's first X-ray pulsar navigation satellite (XPNAV-1) in November, Xinhua reported. The move brings autonomous spacecraft navigation and a more precise...
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