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Archive for February 9th, 2015

Delay of the day: Falcon 9/DSCOVR

February 9th, 2015 by

The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) now is scheduled to launch at 2305 UTC on 10 February from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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New development for satellite orbit control subsystem

February 9th, 2015 by

ISS-Reshetnev Company said it is currently working on a new high-pressure xenon tank intended for the company’s future satellites’ orbit control subsystems.

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JPSS-1 imaging instrument completes major development milestone

February 9th, 2015 by

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), one of five instruments that will fly on-board NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) satellite, has successfully completed its pre-shipment review.

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter completes 40,000 Mars orbits

February 9th, 2015 by

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passed a mission milestone of 40,000 orbits on 7 February 2015, in its ninth year of returning information about the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of Mars, from equatorial to polar latitudes.

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