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Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: Haiyang 2A [HY 2A]; Datre: 15 Augist 2011, 2257 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. State media reported the launch was successful.
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Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: Haiyang 2A [HY 2A]; Datre: 15 Augist 2011, 2257 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. State media reported the launch was successful.
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Russia’s Polyot airline still has plans to launch rockets from Antonov-24 cargo planes. The project, aptly dubbed Air Launch, has been announced since at least 12 years – without showing much progress. Yet, Polyot director general Anatoly Karpov says it’s far from being dead.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that its U.S. operation received a US$4 million contract to provide Lockheed Martin with an advanced technology solution for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM).
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So, what exactly is streaming? Well, it is basically when you take live media and broadcast it over the internet through some type of media. The most common media being used now is through internet television.
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A new RD-0124 rocket engine was successfully tested at the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau in Voronezh, Russia.
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NigeriaSat-2 has successfully completed pre-launch tests and has been integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle. The satellite will lift-off from Yasny in southern Russia on 17 August, together with NigeriaSat-X, which was built under a training and development programme.
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