5 science satellites blast off on rocket
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Five science satellites blasted off on a single rocket into a golden sunset Saturday on a mission to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Europe's Ariane 5 rocket lofts two satellites from the Kourou spaceport in its last mission of the year.
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By NASSER KARIMI TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian rocket launched over the weekend that soared to the edge of space was intended for research, an Iranian space official said, in comments that appeared intended to show that the program is aimed at launching satellites, not missiles.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A cluster of Air Force research satellites rocketed into space Thursday night. The Atlas 5 rocket was carrying two satellites that are part of the Orbital Express Experiment.
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Europe's heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket puts two satellites in orbit after taking off from French Guiana.
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A cluster of Air Force research satellites rocketed into space Thursday night.
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico  - A commercial   rocket packed with cargo blasted off from a desert launch range   in New Mexico on Monday, ushering in what the organizers hope   will be a new era of cheap public access to space.
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An unmanned rocket carrying three  Russian GLONASS navigation satellites took off from the Russian  cosmodrome at Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Friday, news agencies  reported.
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India just launched a communications satellite.
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RBC, 09.11.2004, Moscow 09:25:54.Russia has successfully launched a new model of booster rocket, the Soyuz-2-1A. The rocket blasted off at 9:30 pm from the Plesetsk launch pad carrying a satellite model.
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BEIJING, Oct. 24 -- China sent a satellite rocketing toward lunar orbit Wednesday evening, the latest step in an ambitious national program to shoot more astronauts into space, build a space station and eventually land Chinese astronauts on the moon.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 20  - NASA launched Saturday its Swift satellite, which will track huge explosions of gamma rays, the US space agency said.
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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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KOUROU, French Guyana  - An Ariane-5 rocket  blasted off from French Guyana on Friday putting into orbit  telecommunications satellites for Africa and North America, the  six Ariane mission this year.
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France launched an Ariane rocket on Saturday, lifting into orbit the new-generation military satellite Helios II A and six microsatellites for different scientific purposes, said reports reaching Kourou, French Guiana.
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A rocket has been launched carrying a satellite to track and study the most powerful explosions seen in the universe since the Big Bang.
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By Jim Ellis Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Five science satellites blasted off on a single rocket into a golden sunset Saturday on a mission to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.  The launch at 6:01 p.m.