India cheers satellite launch
13969
Three-stage morale booster Indian space scientists were celebrating yesterday after the successful launch of a new communications satellite, INSAT-4CR, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.â¦
491520
A rocket lifted off Friday from this French department in South America carrying satellites to provide broadband Internet services to rural parts of the U.S. and television programming to people across the hemisphere.
484771
PARIS - Canada's Radarsat-2 Earth observation satellite, which has been almost a decade in design and construction, launched successfully Friday aboard a Russian Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to launch-services provider Starsem S.A. of France.
710306
NEW DELHI, AUG 29: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday congratulated the scientists and engineers for the successful launch of the Agni II missile.
328260
Fifty mini-satellites are to be sent into space in 2007 to celebrate the launch of the first ever satellite Sputnik 1.
669886
NASA&#39;s Swift satellite successfully launched today aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 12:16 pm EST from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
758629
A test rocket which Brazil successfully launched on Saturday provided reassurance to the countryâs space programme 14 months after a more powerful one exploded before lift-off killing 21 people.
523307
A rocket Iran launched into orbit this month to prepare for putting a domestically made research satellite into space has successfully sent scientific data back to Earth, state media reported on Sunday.
135736
India successfully placed an Israeli spy satellite into orbit Monday in a boost to the South Asian nation's efforts to win a share of the multi-billion-dollar space launch market.
484646
India successfully test fired a  long-range nuclear-capable Agni II missile off its eastern  coast Sunday, a defense ministry spokesman said.
164851
Russia successfully launched a rocket on  Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a  navigation system to rival America's GPS.
6052
Europe's "super rocket" which can lift more than one and heavier satellites into orbit is ready for its first trip into space.
123510
Indian officials celebrated a rare piece of good news in the tsunami-hit Andaman and Nicobar islands on Saturday -- the birth of a baby girl to a teenage mother from a threatened Stone Age tribe.
690898
NEW DELHI, India  - India successfully test fired  a long-range nuclear-capable Agni II missile off its eastern  coast Sunday, the Press Trust of India reported, quoting  defense department sources.
283433
Scientists delight in the performance of the Aura satellite, launched in July to check the health of the Earth's atmosphere.
594051
India has successfully tested a naval version of its Prithvi-III nuclear-capable medium range ballistic missile, defence sources say.
294780
India erupts in joy after the cricket team's win in the World Twenty20 cricket final.