Sea Launch Rocket Successfully Returns to Flight
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PARIS - Sea Launch Co. successfully returned to flight Jan. 15 after being grounded for nearly a year, placing the Thuraya-3 mobile communications satellite into orbit and permitting Abu Dhabi-based Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications to proceed with long-stalled plans to expand into China and the rest of East Asia.
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NASA successfully launched a Delta II rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this weekend that will carry five THEMIS satellites into orbit.
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The launch of an orbital rocket from a regional spaceport on the Eastern Shore has been postponed until at least Saturday morning, NASA announced yesterday. The delay is the third since a software glitch was discovered last weekend in an Air Force satellite that is the rocket's main payload.
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Europe's most powerful rocket, carrying a payload of precious satellites, soared into space Saturday from its South American base in a successful launch more than two years after its inaugural flight ended in disaster.
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Indiaâs indigenously built Agni II missile was successfully test-fired again from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)âs missile testing range at the Wheelers Island in the Bay of Bengal off the Orissa coast on Sunday afternoon.
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Test pilot makes successful foray into space on rocket ship. But there was some drama... THE spectators on the ground gasped as the rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in about 16 seconds.
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A rocket that was the first launched from a commercial spaceport in New Mexico &#151; and the first to crash &#151; has been found in the desert, company officials said Saturday.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - A revived set of crucial computers aboard the international space station appeared to pass one more test Monday, making it likely that space shuttle Atlantis will return home later this week.
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In a crucial mission for Europe's space program, an upgraded Ariane-5 rocket successfully orbited two satellites into space on Saturday - two years after a first attempt ended in failure.
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Russia successfully launched a rocket on  Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a  navigation system to rival America's GPS.
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The space shuttle Endeavour landed safely yesterday after a mission that successfully tested many of the safety modifications put into place after the Columbia disaster four years ago.
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An inflatable spacecraft designed as part of a project to put a hotel in space has successfully entered Earth's orbit.
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NASA Langley Research Center engineers whose work helped determine that a damaged portion of the shuttle needed to be fixed in space welcomed the return to Earth of the Atlantis yesterday.
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By Bill Geroux, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 12--WALLOPS ISLAND -- The launch of a 69-foot orbital rocket from a  regional spaceport on the Eastern Shore was scrubbed yesterday because of a  software glitch in a satellite the rocket carries.
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A Soyuz capsule carrying a U.S.-Russian crew back to Earth following six months at the international space station hurtled through the Earth's atmosphere and landed safely and on target in Kazakhstan Saturday evening.
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By Seth Borenstein Associated Press  HOUSTON -- NASA gave space shuttle Atlantis the all-clear to come home today after a stem-to-stern inspection prompted by a mysterious flurry of orbital litter found no damage to the ship.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 9 -- The shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit Saturday on a long-awaited mission to resume assembly of the space station three-and-a-half years after the 2003 Columbia disaster.