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Archive for November 17th, 2008

Space shuttle Endeavour heading to ISS

November 17th, 2008 by

Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 0055 UTC on 15 November to repair and remodel the International Space Station.

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J-2X engine for Ares rocket passes critical design review

November 17th, 2008 by

NASA’s J-2X rocket engine successfully completed its critical design review last week at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama/USA.

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Laser Instrument on Chandrayaan-1 activated

November 17th, 2008 by

The Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI), one of the 11 scientific instruments (payloads) carried by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, has successfully been turned on on 16 November 2008.

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Update: Thales Alenia Space shipped SICRAL 1B to launch site

November 17th, 2008 by

Sea Launch took delivery of the SICRAL 1B communications satellite last week at the Payload Processing Facility at Sea Launch Home Port in the Port of Long Beach.

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