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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Official pens seeing plenty of action It's all go this week for the European Space Agency, ESA. The agency has ordered the first satellites for its Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme, and finalised details of how it will work with NASA on two massive projects: the James Webb Space Telescope and the LISA Pathfinder mission.â¦
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(Corrects to make clear Apollo 9 orbited the earth, paragraph four)
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European astronomers plan to build an optical telescope that is four times bigger than any other in existence.
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The United Nations has proclaimed 2009 to be the International Year of Astronomy to mark the 400th anniversary of observations by Galileo that revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) said here on Thursday.
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The 200m euros (Â£135m) needed to cover cost overruns on Europe's Galileo sat-nav system has materialised just in time to meet a crucial deadline.
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Washington- NASA announced late Monday that it had picked Northrop Grumman Space Technology to help it develop a spacecraft that could explore three of Jupiter&#39;s moons, a project potentially worth $232 million to the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland
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Europe hopes finally to get its space station laboratory, Columbus, into orbit this Thursday.
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By TOM ROEDER THE GAZETTE  A satellite built by Air Force Academy cadets was carried into orbit Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket that was launched at 8:11 p.m. MST from from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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Europe's Huygens spacecraft is set to make history as it heads for its rendezvous with Saturn's moon Titan.
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European Space Agency -- ESAÃ¢ÂÂs Huygens probe, now orbiting Saturn on board the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft, is in good health and successfully passed its fifteenth Ã¢ÂÂIn-Flight CheckoutÃ¢ÂÂ on 14 September 2004.     This in-flight checkout procedure was the last but one planned before separation of the Huygens probe from Cassini in December this year, and it included some specific activities that were intended to prepare for the separation...
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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
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UK schoolchildren are being offered the chance to design an experiment for a small satellite.
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Galileo Avionica si aggiudica fornitura da 20mln euro
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'Indispensable strategic tool' Galileo, the rolling European satnav project fracas, has hit the headlines again as parliamentarians in Brussels demand extra funds for the coming year.â¦
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PASADENA, Calif. -- Northrop Grumman Space Technology has been selected to help NASA design a nuclear-powered spacecraft to orbit and explore three moons of Jupiter that may have oceans beneath their icy surfaces.
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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.