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Soyuz Moved To Pad For Thursday Launch To StationBaikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Oct 06, 2010 The Soyuz spacecraft that will carry three new Expedition 25 flight engineers to the International Space Station was rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka will launch aboard the new Soyuz TMA-01M Thursday at 7:10 p.m. EDT (Friday, Kazakhstan time) and begin a five-month tour of duty aboard the station after docking to the Poisk module Saturday evening. Meanwhile, ... read more |
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 05, 2010The Eutelsat W3B satellite for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission has arrived at the Spaceport, where it will undergo final checkout for its October 28 liftoff. W3B was delivered to French Guiana last week aboard an Antonov An-124 cargo jetliner, and is now in one of the Spaceport's clean rooms for its pre-launch validation. This latest payload to be launched by Arianespace for ... more 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 05, 2010Russia's Rokot carrier rockets will take two European Space Agency (ESA) scientific satellites to orbit in 2012-2013, the head of the ESA Moscow Office said on Monday. "We have signed contracts for two launches of ESA remote sensing satellites on Russia's Rokot carrier rockets," Rene Pischel said. The first launch will deliver to orbit the SWARM satellite, which will survey the geoma ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 04, 2010NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on Friday agreed to update the International Space Station launch schedule. The target launch dates for the last planned space shuttle flight, STS-134 on Endeavour, will be Feb. 27 and the Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 (ATV-2) will be Feb. 15. Roscosmos will continue to look at Soyuz launch and landing optio ... more |
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Chang'e-2 Heads For MoonBeijing, China (XNA) Oct 04, 2010 China's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2, was maneuvered to correct its trajectory on the earth-moon transfer orbit Saturday. Scientists successfully activated the attitude control engines on Chang'e-2 and trimmed the satellite for the first time on its journey, according to a flight control official in Beijing. "During Chang'e-2's 380,000-km journey to the moon, we will conduct more orbit corrections if necessary to ensure that it enters a lunar orbit," said Ma Yongping, vice director ... read more |
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