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Russia probes navigation system spending after crashMoscow (AFP) Dec 7, 2010 Russia launched a probe Tuesday into whether the money assigned to create a satellite navigation rival to the US GPS system was being wisely spent, prosecutors said, after the latest launch ended in failure. The decision followed the failed launch Sunday of three Glonass satellites that were to have completed a satellite constellation whose development had been begun by the Soviet Union back in 1976. Space officials said the rocket carrying the payload had failed to reach its initial low-earth o ... read more |
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  Program Error Caused Russian Glonass Satellite Loss A program error caused a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket to deviate from its course and lose a booster carrying three Glonass-M satellites, a source in the Russian space industry said on Monday. ... more | .. |
  Kazakh Space Agency Seeks Extra Funding For New Baikonur Launch Pad Kazakhstan's national space agency, Kazcosmos, has requested more funding for the joint Russian-Kazakh project to build a new launch pad at the Baikonur space center. In late December 2004, Ru ... more | .. |
 US company's spacecraft launch delayed to Thursday American company SpaceX will attempt Thursday to launch its first space capsule into orbit and back, in a key test for the future of commercial space flight as NASA winds down its shuttle program. ... more | .. |
  NASA Ejects Nanosatellite From Microsatellite In Space On Dec. 6 at 1:31 a.m. EST, NASA for the first time successfully ejected a nanosatellite from a free-flying microsatellite. NanoSail-D ejected from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satel ... more |
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  Next-Gen Earth Imaging Satellite Advances To Critical Design Review Phase The Lockheed Martin team designing GeoEye's next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, successfully completed the program's Preliminary Design Review (PDR) three weeks ah ... more | .. |
  ISRO Renews Deal With EADS Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has renewed a five-year contract with EADS Astrium, Europe's leading satellite system specialist, for joint marketing of satellites. Announcing this d ... more | .. |
  Arianespace Will Orbit Sicral 2 Milcomms Satellites Telespazio (Finmeccanica/Thales) has chosen Arianespace to launch the Sicral 2 satellite in the framework of a turnkey contract that the Italian Defense Ministry and the French DGA armament agency ( ... more | .. |
 GPS Not Working A Shoe Radar May Help You Find Your Way The prevalence of global positioning system (GPS) devices in everything from cars to cell phones has almost made getting lost a thing of the past. But what do you do when your GPS isn't workin ... more |
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 ULA Enters Fifth Year With 45 Launches In 48 Months of Operation As 2010 nears its end, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is proud to celebrate its fourth anniversary with 45 successful launches in the company's 48 months of operation. ULA closed out 2010 in impressiv ... more | .. |
  China-Made Satellite Keeps Remote Areas In Venezuela Connected A China-made-and-launched communications satellite has for two years helped develop education and communications in Venezuela, especially in this South American nation's remote regions. More t ... more | .. |
  SwRI Researchers Continue Starfighters Suborbital Space Flight Training As part of their suborbital spaceflight training, Southwest Research Institute researchers and suborbital payload specialists Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. Dan Durda have continued their spaceflight traini ... more | .. |
 Federal Government Approves New German Space Strategy The German Federal Government adopted a new space strategy at its cabinet meeting on 30 November 2010. The paper defines the fundamentals of how the high-technology space sector is to develop over t ... more |
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 Aerojet Propulsion Raises Japan's First Quasi-Zenith Satellite MICHIBIKI Aerojet congratulates Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the successful launch of the MICHIBIKI satellite aboard the H-2A launch vehicle out of the ... more | .. |
 Boeing Completes Intersegment Testing Of FAB-T Satellite Comms System Boeing has announced that the company and the U.S. Air Force recently completed intersegment tests of communications between a Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminal (FAB-T) and an Advance ... more | .. |
 X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Completes First Flight Boeing has announced the successful de-orbit and landing of the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), also known as the X-37B, for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The X-37B landed at 1:16 ... more | .. |
 Programming error caused Russian satellite failure: report A programming error may have caused a rocket carrying three Russian navigation satellites to fail to reach orbit, a Russian space agency source told the RIA Novosti news agency on Monday. ... more |
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Roscosmos And NASA To Seal Deal On Joint Projects Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, and NASA are to sign a protocol on joint projects in manned and unmanned space travel, the Russian agency's head, Alexei Perminov, said on Wednesday. "We are ... more | .. |
 Malaysia To Train Experts For Aerospace Industry Malaysia will set up an institute next year to train people in the area of component manufacturing for the aerospace industry. Malaysian Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Maximus Ong ... more | .. |
 ISRO Hands Two Contracts To Arianespace Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has given an estimated Rs500 crore order to Arianespace and renewed the five-year contract with EADS Astrium for joint marketing of satellites, it was annou ... more | .. |
 Website Hosts Space Transcripts Fred Haise first hailed Houston from Apollo 13, but it was Jim Lovell who spoke the now-iconic line. "Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a main B bus undervolt," Lovel said on the second ... more |
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  Israelis brace for missile firestorm For months, military leaders and commentators have been warning Israelis their cities face an unprecedented threat of missile attacks even as the country invests heavily in developing air-defense systems experts say cannot provide adequate protection. ... more | .. |
  US drone attack kills five militants in Pakistan: officials Missiles fired from a US drone on a vehicle and a house killed five militants in Pakistan's lawless northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border on Monday, security officials said. ... more | .. |
 US suspected Yemen had portable missiles: cables US officials suspected Yemen had stocks of shoulder-fired missiles, a major concern if they fell in the wrong hands, while the Yemeni leader sought to use newfound leverage for US aid, secret memos said. ... more | .. |
  New Advanced Combat Radar Flies On F-16 Raytheon's Advanced Combat Radar, the latest Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, has successfully completed a series of flight trials on a U.S. Air Force F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif ... more |
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