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HTV-R spacecraft
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has unveiled three basic plans it has worked out for the design of its unmanned cargo spacecraft that will be capable of bringing back supplies from the International Space Station (ISS). Based on the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), JAXA is developing a n...
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STS-28 Mission
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STS-28 was the fourth shuttle mission dedicated to United States Department of Defence purposes, and the first flight of Columbia since STS-61-C. The details of the mission are classified, but the payload is widely believed to have been the first SDS-2 communications satellite. The mission lau...
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Manned spaceflight
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No need for manned spaceflight, says astronomer royal Martin Rees Forget manned moon bases, forget a Mars colony - most future space travellers will be robots, according to astronomer royal Martin Rees. Rees, professor of cosmology and astrophysics at Cambridge University, thinks sending peop...
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Mars 4 mission
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Mars 4 Launch date/time: Mars 4: July 21, 1973 at 19:30:59 UTCOn-orbit mass: Dry: 2270 kgFully-fuelled: 3440 kg The Mars 4 orbiter reached Mars on February 10, 1974. Due to a flaw in the computer chip which resulted in degradation of the chip during the voyage to Mars, the retro-rockets designed to...
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Phobos program
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The Phobos program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. Phobos 2 became a Mars orbiter and returned 38 images with a resolution of up to 40 meters. Both probes suffered from critical failures. Phobos 1 was la...
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