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Latest Images from Mars Global Surveyor Now Online
New pictures of the south polar cap on Mars and a global view of the dust storm occurring there have been released by the imaging team for NASA’s Mars Global […]
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Orbital’s Launch of Taurus Rocket Unsuccessful
For More Information Contact: Barron Beneski (703) 406-5528 beneski.barron@orbital.com — Launch Results Indicate That ORBIMAGE’s OrbView-4 Satellite and NASA’s QuikTOMS Satellite Did Not Achieve Orbit — (Dulles, VA 21 September […]
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Flight 145: The next Ariane 5 is assembled
Basic assembly of the Ariane 5 launcher has been performed at the Spaceport in French Guiana, completing one more step in the program to return Arianespace’s heavy-lift launcher to operational […]
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Loral Skynet donates satellite service to support disaster relief telethon
Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NYSE: LOR), today announced that it will provide free transponder capacity on its Telstar 4 and Telstar 5 satellites to the […]
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Taurus Rocket Fails to Deliver QuikTOMS to Orbit
The NASA QuikTOMS ozone monitoring satellite launched earlier today was lost due to the failure of the commercial launch vehicle purchased by the Agency to deliver the payload into orbit. […]
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Orbital completes $20 million sale of sensor systems division to Hamilton Sunstrand
Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) today announced that it has completed the sale of its Sensor Systems Division (SSD) to the Hamilton Sundstrand unit of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX). […]
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Selects Sutron’s SatLink Satellite Transmitter to Aid in Monitoring Global Climate Change Data
Sutron Corporation announced today that NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center has made its first purchase of Sutron’s SatLink High Data Rate Satellite Transmitter. SatLink will be an important part of AERONET, […]
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Taurus launched
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – A Taurus rocket, carrying the OrbView-4 and QuikTOMS satellites was launched today from Space Launch Complex 576 E on North Vandenberg at 11:49 a.m. […]
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ESA’s new antenna is quite a dish!
Sending a spacecraft such as Rosetta millions of kilometres into space to explore other worlds is one of the most exciting endeavours undertaken by modern science. However, the fiery launch […]
