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Eurockot Launches SMOS And Proba-2 Plesetsk, Russia (ESA) Nov 02, 2009 
The second satellite in ESA's Earth Explorer series-the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission-and the second demonstration satellite under ESA's Project for Onboard Autonomy (Proba-2) were launched into orbit last night from northern Russia. SMOS will play a key role in the monitoring of climate change on a global scale. It is the first ever satellite designed both to map sea sur ... read morePhobos Grunt Including Phobos LIFE Delayed Until 2011 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2009The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has decided to delay from 2009 to 2011 the launch of the Phobos Grunt mission to study and return samples from the Martian moon Phobos. The Planetary Society's LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) experiment, designed to test the ability of microorganisms to survive deep space flight, is part of the mission. Due to the relative orbits of Earth ... more
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India launches seven satellites: space agency
Bangalore, India (AFP) Sept 23, 2009India successfully launched seven satellites including six from foreign countries on Wednesday, officials said, underlining the country's ambitions in the space business. About a month after its first moon mission was aborted, the country's space agency announced that the seven satellites had been put into orbit about 720 kilometres (447 miles) above the Earth. India will use one of the ... more US Clears ISRO Launch Of Algerian Satellites 
Washington (PTI) Aug 14, 2009The US has allowed ISRO to launch Algerian satellites having American components using an Indian launch vehicle following a Technical Safeguards Agreement (TSA) between the two countries. A Technical Safeguards Agreement, covering launches of satellites having US components on Indian launch vehicles, was signed between India and the US on July 20 during the US Secretary of State Hillary ... more ANDE-2 Deployment Tracked 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2009The Naval Research Laboratory's satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), was deployed from NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 30, 2009. The ANDE-2 satellite suite consists of two nearly perfectly spherical micro-satellites with instrumentation to perform two interrelated mission objectives. The first objective is to monitor the total atmospheric density ... more IIT Kanpur Develops Nanosatellite To Be Launched By ISRO 
New Delhi (PTI) Aug 10, 2009Taking a big leap in its technological quest, IIT Kanpur has developed a nanosatellite which is expected to provide real-time data on drought, flood, vegetation and forestation. The satellite, designed and developed by a group of students of the institute, will be handed over to ISRO, which is expected to launch it by the end of the year. "This satellite will have specific function ... more |
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Picosatellite To Begin Milestone Small-Satellite Mission
Austin TX (SPX) Jun 11, 2009In an initial step toward the first successful rendezvous and docking of very small satellites without human control, a pair of miniature "picosatellites" built by University of Texas at Austin and Texas A and M University engineering students will be launched into orbit this month from Space Shuttle Endeavour. In the process, the students will try to accomplish what only multi-million-dollar ... more NASA Flight Facility Launches Nanosatellite 
Wallops Island VA (SPX) May 21, 2009NASA's PharmaSat nanosatellite successfully launched at 7:55 p.m. EDT Tuesday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at Wallops Island, Va. PharmaSat rode to orbit aboard a four-stage Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket. Also aboard were the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat-3 satellite and other NASA CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments ... more Ducommun Announces Delivery Of Nanosats To USASMDC 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 04, 2009Ducommun has announced that its Miltec Corporation (Miltec) subsidiary delivered flight-ready nanosatellites to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) in Huntsville, Alabama on April 28, 2009. This delivery marks the completion of the first U.S. Army satellite development program since the Courier 1B communications satellite in 1960. ... more Croatia To Launch Satellite Into Space 
Zagreb, Croatia (JNA) May 04, 2009Croatia has started a space programme on May 1: a planned science-exploration and educational project in the area of space technologies. The project was envisioned by the Vidulini astronomy association. The association`s representatives point out that their mission is to envision, construct, use various technical achievements, explore and hold educational activities with the goal of ... more |
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