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While Michael Jackson is still the world’s most famous ‘Moonwalker’, US Astronaut Sunita Williams is the world’s longest female spacewalker – giving Luke Skywalker a…
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The European Space Agency plans to begin during 2007 the operational development of a space weather forecasting system to help protect satellites from high energy…
Monday, 05 February 2007 03:41
Chinese Beidou navigation satellite launched from Long March 3A rocket
On Saturday, February 3, 2007, the Chinese launched one of its Beidou navigation satellites onboard a Long March 3A rocket. Translated as ‘Compass’, the Beidou…
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China has launched its fourth navigation satellite into orbit yesterday according to Chinese news agency Xinhua. It is the first satellite of Beidou class to…
NASA news reports that International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 14 commander Michael Michael López-AlegrÃa and flight engineer Suni Williams began the second of three spacewalks…
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International space station commander Mike Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams have embarked on a second spacewalk to continue work on the station's new cooling system.
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Saturday, 03 February 2007 22:36
NASA Cassini spacecraft photographs cloud system on Saturn's moon Titan
Detailed images produced by the Cassini spacecraft on December 29, 2006, show a cloud formation about 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) in diameter at Titan’s north-pole…
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The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled to launch in August 2007, will end up on the northern pole of Mars in May 2008. As with the…
Friday, 02 February 2007 21:43
Space weapons specialist believes Chinese anti-ballistic test was legal
According to a recent article in New Scientist, the Chinese anti-ballistic test held on January 11, 2007, in which China destroyed one of its own…
International Space Station (ISS) crew members Michael López-AlegrÃa and Sunita Williams will go outside Sunday February 4, 2007, for the second of their three spacewalks…
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