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Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Kosmos 2472; Date: 27 June 2011, 1600 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. Space Troops spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said that the rocket had successfully put the military satellite into the designated orbit.
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Astrium recently signed a EUR60 million rider with the European Space Agency (ESA) and its partners of the joint propulsion team consortium, Avio SpA (Italy) and SNECMA (SAFRAN Group; France). The contract is part of ESA’s Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP). The activities were started back in 2007 and have accumulated a value of more than EUR100 million.
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Alexander Kirilin, head of Samara TsSKB-Progress, at the Paris Air Show 2011 outlined some Russian launch plans for 2012 and 2013.
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NASA’s next Mars rover recently completed the journey from California to Florida in preparation for launch this autumn.
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Sometimes, a new thing that’s advertised as revolutionary ends up being just the same old same old, simply repackaged. And this is often true with those advances that end up being shockingly similar in their technology, but that fool consumers who might not know as much about how the inner workings of computers and stereos actually function. And while that happens a lot of the time with components of entertainment systems, the truth is that when it comes to watching television, satellite TV actually is leaps and bounds ahead of cable in all that it provides for a more reasonable price. For those who are hesitant to make the switch, here are five of the biggest differences that consumers are likely to notice.