Ariane sends satellites to orbit
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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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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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France launched an Ariane rocket on December 18, 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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - So many satellites. Just one rocket. Five NASA satellites stacked like a wedding cake are set to launch on a single rocket today, part of a mission to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.
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The US space agency, NASA, launched a satellite Saturday that scientists hope will help them locate the sources of mysterious gamma ray explosions, the
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Strong upper level winds forced NASA to abort plans to launch five satellites on a single rocket Friday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, officials said.NASA will attempt to launch the five science satellites again Saturday.
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Goddard Space Flight Center -- NASA scientists recently successfully radioed artificial intelligence (AI) software to a satellite. They tested the software's ability to find and analyze errors in the spacecraft's systems...
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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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European Space Agency -- When the Ariane 5 ECA qualification flight lifts off in October, one of the Ã¢ÂÂpassengersÃ¢ÂÂ will be 33.5 litres of water. Onboard will be the experimental Sloshsat-FLEVO satellite, designed to help European scientists find out more about the movement of water in microgravity and its effects on satellites...
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Moscow, 26 December: Three satellites of the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass) have been put into orbit as planned.
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Promise of improved comms in Asia Pacific The Thuraya-3 mobile voice and data services satellite has been successfully entered geosynchronous transfer orbit after having launched from the Oydessy Pacific Ocean rocket platform.â¦
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WASHINGTON -- The early shutdown of the Delta 4 Heavyâs propulsion system during the Boeing-built rocketâs demonstration launch Tuesday prevented three satellites on board from reaching orbit.
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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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Europe's "super rocket" which can lift more than one and heavier satellites into orbit is ready for its first trip into space.
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MOSCOW. May 30 (Interfax) - The Fregat upper stage has placed four Globalstar telecommunication satellites into their planned orbits, Interfax-AVN was told at the central information post of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on Wednesday.
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New China News Agency reported that the satellite was set into orbit by a &#39;Long Walking- 2C&#39; rocket. The satellite was launched at 15:50 local time (10:50 in Turkey) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center in Gansu province in northwestern China.
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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.