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Thursday, 07 November 2024 16:44

First Australian commercial orbital launch permit issued to Gilmour Space

The Australian Government has authorised Gold Coast startup Gilmour Space Technologies to launch its Eris 1 launch vehicle from the Bowen Orbital Spaceport at Abbot Point, Queensland.

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Monday, 13 April 2015 17:41

Quantum adds to archive options

Quantum has announced new archive solutions using tiered storage to reduce the cost of retaining unstructured data.

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Friday, 26 March 2010 23:54

Athena gets nod for small satellite launches

The booster rocket Athena will be placed back into production by Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems as business grows for small satellite launches from NASA, DoD, and others.

 

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Tuesday, 01 December 2009 01:00

New Zealand company heads to space with first launch

The first launch by a private company from New Zealand was successful on November 30, 2009, as its Ātea-1 suborbital sounding rocket was launched from Great Mercury Island, which is off the northeast coast of North Island.

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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 21:33

NASA scrubs Ares 1-X due to weather problems

At 11:20 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, October 27, 2009, NASA gave up trying to launch its first test flight of its new Ares 1-X rocket. The entire morning was besieged with adverse weather conditions, a ship in restricted waters, and a stuck probe cover.

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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 18:31

South Korea sends rocket into space from new launch facility

South Korea made history on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, when it launched its first rocket into space from a launch site within the country. However, the satellite failed to make its intended orbit.
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Monday, 06 April 2009 18:09

Long-range North Korean missile travels over Japan

The country of North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday, April 5, 2009. Even though its second-stage failed, the launch is being condemned by countries standing firmly behind an imposed U.N. test ban.


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Friday, 03 April 2009 21:27

Rocket study suggests more regulations to prevent ozone depletion

According to a study performed in part by The Aerospace Corporation, rocket launches in the future, as many more are performed each year, may need to be more strictly regulated by the global community in order to not deplete ozone in the stratosphere.
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Saturday, 28 February 2009 01:40

Reset countdown clock: Kepler Telescope to launch 1 day late

NASA announced on Thursday, February 26, 2009, that its Kepler Space Telescope will launch no earlier than Friday, March 6, one day later than originally scheduled, to double-check common hardware carried by Kepler’s rocket and the Taurus XL rocket that carried the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which crashed after its launch.

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Monday, 19 January 2009 22:36

Long delayed classified U.S. NRO L-26 satellite launched

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) L-26 satellite, also called USA 202, was launched on Sunday, January 18, 2009, aboard a Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle by the United Launch Alliance. The classified mission was delayed a number of times due to technical problems.

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Wednesday, 14 January 2009 23:26

Bigger is better in rocketry and astronomy

NASA is bringing together the next generation of rockets and space telescopes with its new heavy-lift Ares V rocket. U.S. astronomer Harley Thronson exclaims, “The bigger the better…. NASA's new Ares V rocket is going to completely change the rules of the game."

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Saturday, 06 December 2008 21:07

Pentagon blasts mock missile with Ground-Based Interceptor

On December 5, 2008, the Missile Defense Agency, within the U.S. Pentagon, announced that its interceptor missile destroyed a target missile meant to simulate a North Korean attack, calling it “the largest, most complex test … ever done.”
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 02:55

U.S. student rocket engineers head to NASA's Marshall

NASA has invited fourteen groups of young engineers from eleven middle and high schools around the United States to participate in the 2008-2009 Student Launch Initiative at the Marshall Space Flight Center. It's a GO for Launch!
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Friday, 28 November 2008 20:41

NASA developing Ares rocket with iTunes

NASA is using iTunes to post video updates on the progress being made on its new manned space project, specifically the crew’s Ares I launch vehicle and the Ares V heavy launch vehicle for cargo transport to space.
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Friday, 29 August 2008 22:12

Russians launch five German RapidEye satellites

A Dnepr LV rocket launched successfully five RapidEye satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, August 29, 2008. Russian officials confirm that the German satellites have been positioned at equal intervals within the system's intended Sun-synchronous orbit.

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Friday, 22 August 2008 18:48

NASA reports rocket explosion on Wallops Island

A 53-foot rocket carrying two NASA experiments exploded 27 seconds after lift off on Friday morning, August 22, 2008, at its rocket launch site located on its Wallops Island Facility at the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

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Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:01

Iran announces manned space program within ten years

The Iranian National Space Agency (ISA) intends to send Iranian astronauts into space within ten years. The announcement was made only days after Iran blasted a rocket into space as a test for its first domestically made satellite it hopes to launch sometime in the “near future.”

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Monday, 18 August 2008 21:14

Iran launches second satellite-carrier Safir rocket into space

On Sunday, August 17, 2008, the Iranian government announced that it "successfully" launched, for the second time, its Safir two-stage “satellite-carrier” rocket into space. It supposedly lifted a “dummy” satellite into orbit.

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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 02:57

Musk's SpaceX Falcon rocket fails again

The third launch of the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 1 rocket failed to reach orbit after the first stage failed to separate. "It was obviously a big disappointment not to reach orbit," said company founder Elon Musk.
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Monday, 28 April 2008 11:13

India launches 10 satellites at once

The Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully put ten satellites into orbit with a single rocket.
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