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Cartosat-2B To Become Operational In A WeekChennai, India (PTI) Jul 15, 2010 Cartosat-2B - the remote-sensing satellite put in orbit by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C15) on Monday - is in fine fettle and will become operational in a week. The rocket put four other satellites as well in orbit at an altitude of 637 km. "The health of the satellite is good. Everything has been checked out. It will become operational in a week's time," said P.S. Veeraraghavan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. The images taken by Cartosat-2B's ... read more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Jul 14, 2010NASA has selected nine experiments, designed by students at seven schools, for astronauts to perform on the International Space Station this summer. NASA selected the proposals from among 132 received for the new Kids in Micro-g! Program. This is the pilot year for the program, a student experiment design challenge geared toward grades five through eight. Its purpose is to give students a ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 14, 2010NASA announced three new Centennial Challenges Tuesday, with an overall prize purse of $5 million. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technological achievements by independent teams who work without government funding. "NASA sponsors prize competitions because the agency believes student teams, private companies of all sizes and citizen-inventors can provide creative s ... more  
Long Beach CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2010Sea Launch Company, a leading provider of launch services to the commercial satellite industry, has entered into an agreement with Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited ("AsiaSat"), for the launch of an AsiaSat satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit, on the Sea Launch system. AsiaSat will assign the mission at a later date for a launch to be executed between 2012 and 2014. ... more |
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EchoStar XV Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch ManeuversPalo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 13, 2010 Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the EchoStar XV satellite, built for DISH Network L.L.C., is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite deployed its solar arrays late Saturday night and early Sunday morning following its successful launch on Saturday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan aboard an ILS Proton Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services. Later, it will fire its main thruster in order to start maneuvering into ge ... read more |
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