Feb. 14, 1989: GPS Enters Orbit
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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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The phenomenon, known as frame-dragging, is quite small, amounting to 6 feet in the distance that satellites, moving at about 18,000 miles per hour, cover in their orbits in a year, but it is within the ability of NASA&#39;s instruments to detect.
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London - Europe âs first lunar spacecraft SMART-1 is set to move into orbit around the Moon on Monday the 15 November 2004 . The craft has already reached the âgatewayâ of the Moon, the area where from its gravity dominates the Earth.
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Forget a Global Positioning System or even a map. The Earth&#39;s own original satellite is the most important guide for two hikers making the first known
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In the night of 15-16 November, ESA&#39;s Smart-1 space probe is scheduled to enter into an orbit around the Moon. This operation is not without danger, as it means traversing an area in which the gravitational
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Satellite observation and control networks in China and France yesterday successfully tracked the orbiting of a satellite launched by the French Government.
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Physicist James A. Van Allen and scientists waited tensely for confirmation that the first U.S. satellite, Explorer I, had reached orbit. It was January 1958 and the launch came just months after the Soviets' launch of the first Sputnik satellite.
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Nearly 300 students were spellbound at an Ohio theater when astronaut and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, described his 1962 space flight.  Glenn, 85, was the first American to orbit Earth on Feb. 20, 1962.
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European Space Agency -- One year after its launch on 27 September 2003, the SMART-1 spacecraft is in excellent health and preparing for the manoeuvres that will bring it into orbit around the Moon mid-November.     The first mission phase, the aim of which was to test several innovative technologies, has been successfully completed...
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Test missilistico per mettere in orbita satellite nel 2009
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Third, fourth, or maybe fifth time lucky Europe's first polar orbit satellite has been given a new launch date after a "mechanical incident" at the Baikonur cosmodrome caused delays.â¦
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Ahmedabad, November 15: Even 35 years after Neil Armstrong first put his foot on the moon, the Earthâs natural satellite remains a mystery to man.
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NASA's New Horizon's space probe was pointed toward Pluto and the frozen, sunless reaches of the solar system on a nine-year journey after getting a gravity boost Wednesday from Jupiter.
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Jet Propulsion Lab -- A mountain-sized asteroid made its closest approach to Earth at 6:35 a.m. Pacific Time (9:35 a.m...
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A high-stakes test to determine if a robotic probe can automatically find a satellite and maneuver around it begins today off the California coast.
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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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The American probe becomes the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet back to Earth.