India Launches First Education Satellite
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India&#39;s space agency said it successfully launched the nation&#39;s first satellite for educational services on Monday, which is expected to boost distance learning in a country with a huge rural population.
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BANGALORE  - India&#39;s space agency is ready to send a man to space within seven years if the government gives the nod, while preparations have already begun for the launch of an unmanned lunar mission, a top official said.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tanegashima Island, Japan, 11 September: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched a rocket carrying an intelligence- gathering satellite from Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture on Monday [11 September].
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NEW DELHI India on Sunday test-launched a surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday inaugurated the country's first home-built space centre, which will serve as a base for the launch of research satellites, state media reported.
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A European rocket roared into space from a pad in French Guyana yesterday, placing into orbit a surveillance satellite expected to give France&#39;s military new abilities to spy worldwide.
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Ariane 5 made its first successful launch on 30 October 1997. Its first operational flight took place in December 1999 when it launched ESAâs X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) satellite.
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Iran said Thursday it would launch its first satellite into space by May 2005, state television reported. Mohammad Fathi, head of Iran&#39;s Scientific and Industrial Research Center, said the
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China has launched an experimental navigation satellite into space, state press reported, the nation's first space launch since it tested a satellite-killing missile last month.
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The test that appeared to move Iran closer toward its aim of putting its own satellites into space.
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HYDERABAD, India -- India's government launched an ambitious food-for-work program yesterday aimed at moving millions of poor farmers back from the brink of starvation by helping them feed themselves.
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The first global positioning system satellite is launched; 23 more will follow, and then we will always know where we are. Compiled by Tony Long.
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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.
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Sriharikota, Sept 20 (ANI) : India added another feather to its cap in space technology and stole a march over other countries by launching EDUSAT, its first exclusive satellite for educational sector, from here on Monday.
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China launched a new communications satellite into orbit early Friday to provide broader radio and television signal coverage across the country, state media reported.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's sole commercial satellite operator launched its third satellite Tuesday in what the government said was a landmark effort to extend the country's communications reach.
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The US space agency NASA has launched its first five-satellite mission on board a single rocket aiming to unlock the age-old mysteries of the aurora borealis.