News tagged with rocket launches
Bad weather postpones Japan rocket launch
Japan on Tuesday postponed the launch of a rocket due to deploy a Venus probe and an experimental "space yacht" propelled by solar particles, because of bad weather at the launch site.
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May 18, 2010 |
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First Soyuz launch from Europe's space base for last quarter 2010
The first launch of Russia's Soyuz rocket from Europe's space base in French Guiana, initially scheduled for the end of 2009, will now take place "during the fourth quarter of 2010," satellite launch operators ...
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May 11, 2010 |
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Indian rocket flops, crashing into sea
An Indian rocket showcasing domestically built booster technology crashed soon after take-off on Thursday in a blow to the country's space ambitions, officials said.
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Apr 15, 2010 |
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NASA clears Discovery for Monday morning launch
(AP) -- NASA has cleared Discovery for a Monday morning launch to the International Space Station, the last scheduled liftoff in darkness for the soon-to-retire shuttle program.
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Apr 03, 2010 |
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Rocket prepared for Soyuz space launch
(AP) -- Technicians at a space center in Kazakhstan have hoisted a rocket onto its launch pad ahead of Friday's blastoff of a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station.
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Mar 31, 2010 |
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High ride with Maxus-8
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Maxus-8 sounding rocket was launched last week from Kiruna in northern Sweden carrying four microgravity research modules on a hectic 12-minute space voyage. The ultimate results may ...
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Mar 29, 2010 |
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GOES-P Set for Launch
(PhysOrg.com) -- The GOES spacecraft continues its processing at the Astrotech Facility in Titusville, Fla. and fuel was loaded into the GOES-P spacecraft on Saturday, January 30. The fuel will keep GOES-P ...
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Feb 04, 2010 |
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GOES-P spacecraft being processed in Florida
During the first three weeks in January, the latest in the series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites also known as GOES-P is being processed and prepped for launch. Meanwhile, the first ...
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Jan 16, 2010 |
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Calif. space tourism firm launches S. Korea deal
(AP) -- A California company developing a rocket plane for space tourism announced Thursday that it has an agreement with a nonprofit group in South Korea to conduct launches in that nation.
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Dec 18, 2009 |
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WISE Launch Delayed 24 Hours
(PhysOrg.com) -- Liftoff of a Delta II rocket and its NASA payload, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has been delayed 24 hours. At the soonest, launch now will be Saturday, Dec. 12, during a ...
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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Rocket launches Air Force satellite from Fla.
(AP) -- A rocket carrying an Air Force satellite that will be used by the military has launched from Cape Canaveral.
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Dec 06, 2009 |
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Steering the Ares Rockets on a Straight Path
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Ares I-X rocket stood more than 325 feet tall on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Spectators watched in awe as its massive solid rocket motor blazed to life with a thunderous ...
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Dec 04, 2009 |
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NASA tries 2nd time to launch experimental rocket
(AP) -- Bad weather was interfering with NASA's attempt to launch a new, experimental rocket for the second day in a row early Wednesday.
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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NASA puts new Ares I-X rocket on launch pad for test flight
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in more than a quarter century, a new vehicle is sitting at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ares I-X flight test vehicle arrived at the pad ...
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Oct 20, 2009 |
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Rocket readied at Kazakh steppe for ISS mission
(AP) -- Workers at Russia's manned space-launch facility lifted to the launch pad on Monday a rocket that is to send Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte and two astronauts to the International Space Station.
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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