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SATELLITE AND SPACE SHUTTLE NEWS
CARGO SHIP BEGINS FLIGHT TO THE SPACE STATION - A Russian freighter packed with fresh supplies for the international space station successfully rocketed away from Earth today and immediately began plotting a two-day trek to the orbiting outpost.
The Progress M-64 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:22 p.m. EDT (2022 GMT) atop a three-stage Soyuz booster.
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(Source: SpaceFlightNow.com)
CANADIAN SATELLITE TO DETECT EARTH HITS - Canadian researchers are working on a tiny satellite that will alert the world to the potential of asteroid strikes.
"This is the first space-based asteroid-searching telescope," said Alan Hildebrand of the University of Calgary (Alberta), one of two principal scientists for the satellite.
He told the Canwest News Service the Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite, set to be launched within two years is "the first space-based asteroid-searching telescope." More
(Source: United Press International)
SECOND GALILEO TEST SATELLITE LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY - Giove-B, the second test satellite for the European satellite navigation system Galileo, was launched at 4am on Monday aboard a Russian rocket departing from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that the two solar panels powering the satellite had deployed without incident and were fully operational by 04:28 BST. More
(Source: Heise Online)
SES ASTRA 5A SATELLITE MOVES TO NEW POSITION, TARGETING EAST EUROPE, MIDEAST - SES SA said the Astra 5A satellite, formerly named Sirius 2, has been moved to a new position at 31.5 degrees east from where it can operate services at up to 40 new broadcasting frequencies and support the development of the Eastern European and Middle East markets.
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(Source: Forbes.com)
INDIAN PSLV BOOSTER HAULS A LOAD OF SATELLITES INTO ORBIT - An Indian rocket took a 14-minute trip into orbit early Monday, releasing nine satellites from six countries on missions to observe Earth, demonstrate low-cost space technologies and educate students around the world.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off at 0353:51 GMT Monday (11:53:51 p.m. EDT Sunday) from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island on India's east coast. The 146-foot-tall rocket turned south from the launch base, traversing the Indian Ocean before arriving in orbit about 14 minutes after liftoff.
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(Source: Space Flight Now)
SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY MOVES CLOSER TO LAUNCH - The space shuttle Discovery moved a step closer to launch early Saturday as NASA engineers hauled the spacecraft into a massive hangar to join its fuel tank and twin rocket boosters.
Discovery made the short morning move from its processing building to the cavernous, 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to prepare for its planned May 31 launch. More
(Source: Space.com)
IAI POSTPONES AMOS 3 SATELLITE LAUNCH - The takeoff of Israel's Amos 3 communications satellite, which had been slated for around 8 a.m. on Thursday in Kazakhstan, was postponed until next week due to a failure in its launching system, Israel Aerospace Industries announced. More
(Source: Jerusalem Post)
VIETNAM'S FIRST SATELLITE SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED AFTER 13-YEAR PREPARATION -
The 2.6-ton medium-sized satellite, Vinasat-1, was successfully launched to its geostationary orbit position using rocket Ariane-5in Kourou site in French Guiana at 5:16 a.m. Saturday (2016 GMT Friday).
The satellite project was first approved by the Vietnamese government in 1995, with an aim to serve increasing local demand for better communication services with lower costs. More
(Source: Xinhua)
THE JASON-2 SATELLITE (OSTM/JASON-2) - The Ocean Surface Topography Mission on the Jason-2 satellite (OSTM/Jason-2) will be a follow-on to the Jason mission. It is scheduled to launch in June of 2008.
Science Objectives
- Extend the time series of ocean surface topography measurements beyond TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P) and Jason to accomplish two decades of observations
- Provide a minimum of 3 years measurement of global ocean surface topography
- Determine the variability of ocean circulation at decadal time scales from combined data record with T/P and Jason More
(Source: Technology News Daily)
DECISION TO LAUNCH ISRAELI SATELLITE CONSIDERED AT TOP - The decision to launch an Israeli
satellite by India, which angered a section of polity, was
considered at the highest level, Minister of State in PMO
Prithviraj Chavan told the Lok Sabha today. He said Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of ISRO,
treated the launch of the Israeli satellite as a purely
commerical venture and added that india has also put in orbit
an Italian satellite Agile.
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(Source: Zee News)
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