A Proton-M rocket rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday to enter final preparation for its planned Friday liftoff on a mission to deliver the Turksat-4B communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Experiments: Body Measures – Body Marker Instrumentation, Calibration & Body Pose Photo Collection, Circumference measurements [During long duration space flight,
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The Proton-M/Briz-M launch vehicle carrying the Turksat-4B communications satellite made an early morning rollout to Site 200/39 where the 58-meter
Read morePlanet Labs’ Flock 1B-21 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on October 12, 2015 after seven months in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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The Gas Dynamic Shield of a Dnepr rocket launched in 2013 re-entered the atmosphere on October 9, 2015.
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India’s first dedicated space observatory has begun collecting data with its suite of instruments, studying Ultraviolet and X-Ray emissions from galactic targets to contribute to addressing some of the outstanding questions in high-energy astrophysics.
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The classified NROL-55 payload operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office has been observed in orbit by a worldwide network of satellite trackers, confirming the secret identity of the satellites as a pair of Naval Ocean Surveillance Satellites.
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The Beidou-3 I2-S navigation satellite has entered Geosynchronous Orbit, according to tracking data that resumed for the satellite late in the week after an eight-day gap in data which is not uncommon for satellites when on the move.
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Experiments: SPHERES [SPHERES stands for Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites and involves two satellites that are used inside
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V Rocket climbed into the pre-dawn skies over the California coast line on Thursday, blasting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:49 UTC on a mission to deliver the NROL-55 payload to orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office, accompanied by 13 CubeSats flying as secondary payloads.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V Rocket climbed into the pre-dawn skies over the California coast line on Thursday, blasting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:49 UTC on a mission to deliver the NROL-55 payload to orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocker blazed into the pre-dawn skies over the Californian coast line on Thursday, lifting off from SLC-3E at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:49 UTC to begin a classified mission for the United States National Reconnaissance Office.
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An Atlas V 401 rocket stands ready for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Thursday for the year’s only National Reconnaissance Office launch, lofting a classified payload into a secret orbit. Known as NROL-55, the mission aims for a liftoff time at 12:49 UTC – the opening of a launch window with an undisclosed duration.
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Wednesday morning’s launch of a Chinese Long March 2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (2015-057) reached its target orbit, as shown by orbital data released later in the day.
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The deployment of CubeSats from the International Space Station resumed this week with a total of 16 satellites up for release Monday through Wednesday comprised of two Danish satellites for the monitoring of ship and aircraft traffic and 14 Planet Labs Doves to become part of the company’s Earth Observation satellite constellation.
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A Chinese Long March 2D lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 4:40 UTC on Wednesday, carrying into orbit a group of commercial Earth Observation Satellites.
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The third Stage of the Soyuz U rocket that launched the Progress M-29M spacecraft on its path to the International Space Station re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday over the Pacific Ocean.
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