Tag: launch
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Soyuz Orbits Two Galileo Satellites
Ariane Space announces launch Friday afternoon, French Guiana time, designated VS03 that “… successfully orbited two satellites today for the European Galileo navigation network.”
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Another NRO Spy Sat Launched Friday From Cape Canaveral
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) launched yet another spy satellite. The NRO-15 lifted off on a Delta 4 Heavy rocket Friday morning at Cape Canaveral, Florida. It’s the second spy satellite launch in just nine days and the third of four since April with the next one expected in August from Vandenberg AFB, California. The NRO…
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NRO Launches US Spy Satellite On Secret Mission
The Chantilly, Va.-based NRO manages the design, construction and operation of the United States’ network of intelligence-gathering spy satellites. ULA officials broadcast the initial liftoff of the Atlas 5 rocket and spy satellite live via satellite and webcast, but cut off the video stream several minutes after launch due to the classified nature of the…
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SpaceX Launch Successful Second Time Around
Universe Today reports successful Space X launch on May 22 from Cape Canaveral after a previous T-Minus Zero abort. The Space X Dragon replaces the Space Shuttle.
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Spy Sat Blasts Off From Vandenberg Amid Mystery
A NRO spy satellite, atop a Delta IV rocket with two strap on boosters for added thrust, launched from Vandenberg AFB, yesterday. Mail Online article reveals rocket thought to contain, “…some form of spy technology”
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phobos: appearance artificial underneath worn surface
Russia launched Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on Nov 8, a ten minute video of event is available here. Phobos-Grunt’s mission to obtain soil samples from Martian moon’s surface, returning in 2014 to Earth. A picture taken, at left, shows expected landing site, but worn away areas where light brown turns to green certainly appears artificial! The picture…
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iran launches second satellite
Iran launched Rasad-1 (Observation-1) into orbit, Wednesday. You have to like the humor in a Satnews Daily article, where subheading reads, “Iran… Why, Of Course This Is A Satellite Tasked With Peaceful Intentions (Launch).” Rasad-1 follows launch of Omid (Hope) in 2009. Iran’s observation satellite weighs 34 pounds, will orbit every 90 minutes 162 miles…
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space x ‘falcon heavy’ to lift off in 2013
Are launch costs too high and weighing down your bottom line? Elon Musk, Space X founder, pitches his Falcon Heavy booster as right for the job to lift your prospects! In a Discovery News article, Musk says, “…we can realistically start to contemplate missions like a Mars sample return, which requires a tremendous amount of…