Four Galileo spacecraft ordered
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A contract is signed that will lead to the building of the first four spacecraft in Europe's multi-billion-euro satellite-navigation network.
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Italian defence group Finmeccanica said its unit Alenia Spazio has signed a 775 million euros (1.037 billion dollars) contract with the Italian space agency to supply four satellites for civil and defence uses to observe the earth.
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Five new satellites - and one candidate moon - have been discovered orbiting the giant planet Neptune, bringing its tally of moons to 13.
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The launch of &quot;Shenzhou IV&quot; manned spacecraft has been listed on the agenda next year, and the countdown for the relevant supporting work has also started.
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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Military aspects remain to be settled Controversial Euro satnav project Galileo should receive more taxpayer cash to get it moving again, European ministers have concluded. But lengthy wrangles over funding channels and control lie ahead.â¦
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After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, a Â£1.7bn US-European mission is preparing for the unknown. Cassini, a Nasa spacecraft the size of a truck, carrying Huygens, a European robot not much
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The DM-type Space Upper Stage delivered three Russian satellites of the Glonass navigation system (two Glonass satellites and one Glonass-M satellite) to near-earth orbit.
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As an unusual Christmas present to the world, Russia sent the last three of its GPS-compatible GLONASS satellites into space on Tuesday, whose missions range from global military tracking to keeping an eye on civilian-owned pet dogs and cats.
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Spectrum placeholder held up by Russian rocketry Hotly-debated European sat nav project Galileo has suffered a technical delay in addition to its budgetary and political woes.â¦
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A French satellite designed to hunt out  new planets has started work after a series of successful  tests, the European Space Agency said on Friday.
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HOUSTON, Dec. 15  /PRNewswire/ -- Thirty-four undergraduate student teams have been selected to fly and conduct experiments aboard NASA's "Weightless Wonder" reduced gravity aircraft next spring.
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European governments failed to agree Friday on how to salvage their troubled satellite navigation system, Galileo.
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Only satellite builders truly enthusiastic Reports from Brussels suggest that European and national officials are beginning to acknowledge the lack of any firm consensus regarding the funding - or even the need - for the planned Galileo Europe sat nav constellation.â¦
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By Eric Hand  ST. LOUIS - A decade ago, NASA's Galileo probe made a stupendous discovery: A vast, warm, salty ocean - bigger than all of Earth's put together - under the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's four large moons.  Ever since, William McKinnon has been chafing to go back.
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EU transport ministers agree to deploy the multi-billion-euro Galileo satellite navigation system for operations starting from 2008.
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BERLIN, Nov. 16 -- A small spacecraft has made it into lunar orbit, marking a key milestone in Europe&#39;s first successful mission to the moon and setting the stage for the craft to begin studying the lunar