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Space shuttle Commander Mark Kelly and his five crewmates are scheduled to begin a 14-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 1947 UTC on 29 April from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STS-134 mission is shuttle Endeavour’s final scheduled flight.
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Vietnam will launch its first remote sensing satellite in 2014, according to the Space Technology Institute of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST).
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Pre-launch speculation regarding classified satellites is not always correct, as the recent NROL-34 launch has shown.
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DigitalGlobe announced it has completed raising the orbit of its QuickBird satellite, a process that began in late March.
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South Korea’s Communications, Oceanography and Meteorology Satellite (COMS) has completed testing and is now utilised on an operational basis.
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Is it all doom and gloom for Science Fiction? No: Fittingly, the answer is out there…….
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