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Europe's satellite navigation pair takes off
Russia's Soyuz boosters brought the first two satellites in Europe's global positioning system to Earth's orbit yesterday.
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Chinese missiles launched French satellites into orbit
On October 7, 2011, from the West Xuong Satellite Launch Center, China's Long March-III2 rocket launched the French W3C satellite satellite into orbit.
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Russia's Glonass system has global coverage
According to THX, on October 7, the head of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), Mr. Vladimir Popovkin said that Russia has completed the deployment of Global Positioni…
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America built the world's most powerful rocket
NASA has introduced a project to build the largest and most powerful missile in the history of space travel. This missile can send spacecraft not only to Earth's orbit b…
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NASA funded a million USD for the Tess project
The Satellite Planetary Survey Project (TESS) at MIT is one of 11 recent proposals, which are evaluated as potential future scientific missions, according to the US Spac…
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NASA 'moon' twins
Nasa's pair of 'twin' spacecraft called GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B was launched on the moon on September 30 and October 5 respectively. The spacecraft attached to the rocket is…
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The cause of the Scheila meteorite explosion
On December 12, 2010, astronomers made a notable discovery: an asteroid named Scheila changed its shape and appeared a trail of light behind it, which looked like regula…
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The shuttle's juniors
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) has signed a contract worth $ 80 million with Sierra Nevada (SNC) to design a new space transport ship.
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Identify the fall position of the US satellite
The US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) announces that their 6-tonne mass satellite has fallen to the northeast of the Vanuatu archipelago.
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Iran will postpone indefinitely the project of bringing monkeys to space
Iran on October 3 announced an indefinite postponement of a project to bring monkeys to space, which was originally expected to be done at the end of the summer and to p…
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Europe launched a satellite to spy on the Sun
A bold idea of the European Space Agency (ESA) will become a reality in 2017, when the agency appoints
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Little planet with huge mountains
American astronomers believe that the planet 'Vesta has the second highest mountain in the solar system, higher than anything on Earth, according to UPI news agency.
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Meteor storms appear tomorrow
Space agencies around the world are concerned that tomorrow's meteor shower could turn into a storm and threaten artificial satellites on Earth orbit.
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Secret of American spy satellite
Over the weekend, the US National Reconnaissance Department (NRO) declassified two secret satellite programs with the participation of three top secret spy satellites sp…