October 3rd, 2009 by
After lifting off from the Spaceport in French Guiana, Ariane 5 injected its two payloads, Amazonas-2 and SATCOMBw-2a, into highly accurate orbits.
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October 3rd, 2009 by
On 1 October another test firing of the Universal Rocket Module (URM)-1 for Russia’s Angara family of launch vehicles – currently under development – took place at the Rocket & Space Industry Research & Testing Center near Moscow.
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October 3rd, 2009 by
Delivery and launch of the first satellite of the Space-Based Infrared System-High early warning system, made by Lockheed Martin, has slipped another year.
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October 3rd, 2009 by
The UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) said it has helped to establish that femtosecond comb lasers can provide accurate measurement of absolute distance in formation flying space missions.
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