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Space Launch System: How to launch NASA’s new monster rocket

Posted by brandoniswrite on February 22, 2012

With the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) falling silent after the retirement of the Space Shuttle, it’ll be at least five years before the public will see the iconic sight of NASA’s follow-on vehicle rising off the launch pad. Interestingly, the Space Launch System (SLS) will follow some of the Shuttle’s heritage of “Flight Operations” – [...]


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ULA’s Atlas V Ready To Rock And Roll Today…Navy’s Communications To Ramp Up 10x (Launch)

Posted by brandoniswrite on February 16, 2012

[SatNews] Celebrating five years and 56 launches, and another this week… Satnews.com — Worldwide Satellite News


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Ariane 5 Takes Edoardo On Top (Launch)

Posted by brandoniswrite on February 11, 2012

[SatNews] This marks one of the final steps in preparation for the liftoff… Satnews.com — Worldwide Satellite News


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Europe’s Ariane 5 to launch two broadcast satellites Friday

Posted by brandoniswrite on January 24, 2012

Europe’s heavy-lift rocket heads to its launch pad. (Arianespace)A mighty European rocket will carry aloft two high definition broadcast satellites on Friday, providing direct to home television for Europe and Japan.The European ASTRA 1N and Japan’s BSAT 3C/JCSAT 110R satellites will be carried into earth orbit by the mighty Ariane 5.The 165-foot white rocket was [...]


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Fifty-Seven Student Rocket Teams to Take NASA Launch Challenge

Posted by brandoniswrite on January 14, 2012

More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 29 states will show their rocketeering prowess in the 2011-12 NASA Student Launch Projects flight challenge. The teams will build and test large-scale rockets of their own design in April 2012. NASA created the twin Student Launch Projects to spark students’ imaginations, [...]


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India to launch spoken web service for farmers

Posted by brandoniswrite on January 13, 2012

New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Soon farmers across the country can get their agriculture and weather-related queries answered quickly. The Indian government is planning to launch a spoken web service that will provide an interactive medium for the farming community. News One


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We Have Just Crossed the T-Minus 100 Day Milestone for Launch of Aquarius, the SSEP Mission 1 Payload to ISS

Posted by brandoniswrite on December 26, 2011

We did not want this milestone to go un-noticed. UPDATE: All flight experiments for SSEP Mission 1 to ISS have now been selected, and NCESSE and NanoRacks are working hard to complete the final flight samples list (fluids and solids) to be flown by the student research teams. The list, due today to NanoRacks, will [...]


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Weather likely will delay final shuttle launch

Posted by brandoniswrite on December 15, 2011

Final space shuttle crew stands ready for launch on Friday. (NASA)A tropical wave will bring showers and low clouds to the American Space Coast on Thursday and the system’s effect will likely delay Friday’s launch attempt of the final space shuttle mission.Air Force weather officer Kathy Winters and her group issued a 30% chance that [...]


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Spacecom… Ascent For AMOS-5 (Launch)

Posted by brandoniswrite on December 12, 2011

Spacecom (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: SCC), operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has announced that its AMOS-5… Satnews.com — Worldwide Satellite News


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A Timeline to Launch for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

Posted by brandoniswrite on November 30, 2011

  AMS, foreground, on the International Space Station National    Trent Martin explains installation sequence to Department of Energy representatives and NASA’s Bill Gerstenmaier, June 2010. (NASA)     AMS-02 Ready for Launch in Endeavour’s Payload Bay, April 2011. (AMS Collaboration)   The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, was carried into orbit on STS-134 on [...]


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