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 by Staff Writers Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 19, 2018
There is only one launch planned to be conducted from Russia's Vostochny cosmodrome next year, a source in the space industry told Sputnik Tuesday. "Most likely, it will be the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b booster... planned for spring or summer 2019," the source said. The first launch from the cosmodrome, on which construction commenced in 2012, was held on April 28, 2016. Vostochny Space Center is the first Russian civil cosmodrome. Baikonur cosmodrome, which Russia leases from Kazakhstan for about $ 115 million per year, Plesetsk (Arkhangelsk region) and Kapustin Yar (Astrakhan region) were initially built as military missile ranges. Source: Sputnik News
NASA Sounding Rockets Carry TRICE-2 over Norwegian Sea Wallops Island VA (SPX) Dec 11, 2018 Two NASA sounding rockets successfully flew over the Norwegian Sea early in the morning December 8 carrying an experiment to study the electrodynamics of the polar cusp. The Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics or TRICE-2 were launched at 3:26 and 3:28 a.m. EST from the Andoya Space Center in Andenes, Norway. The first rocket flew to an altitude 646 miles and the second flew to 469 miles. Preliminary data show that the two four-stage Black Brant XII rockets performed nominally an ... read more
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