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Archive for October, 2013

Delay of the day: Gaia

October 23rd, 2013 by

A decision was taken to postpone the launch of ESA’s Gaia mission after a technical issue was identified in another satellite already in orbit.

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NASA awards Astrotech contract for DSCOVR satellite processing

October 23rd, 2013 by

NASA has awarded Astrotech a contract to provide facilities and pre-launch processing services for the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission to launch in late 2014.

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RSCC to select manufacturer for Ekspress-AMU2

October 23rd, 2013 by

RSCC has begun the process to select a contractor for design, development, manufacture, delivery, integration, ground processing, in-orbit tests, commissioning and lifetime orbit support of Ekspress-AMU2.

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Planck switched off

October 23rd, 2013 by

The Planck satellite, part of the Herschel-Planck joint scientific mission, completed its mission today.

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Juno no longer in safe mode, on track to Jupiter

October 23rd, 2013 by

Here’s what happened to NASA’s Juno probe during the U.S. government shutdown.

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The Boeing Company (Network & Space Systems) results Q3 2013

October 23rd, 2013 by

The Boeing Company reported financial results for the third-quarter 2013.

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Launch date set for India’s Mars probe

October 22nd, 2013 by

The launch of India’s first interplanetary probe, Mars Orbiter Spacecraft onboard PSLV-C25 (in its XL version), is scheduled on 5 November 2013 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.

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Sounding rocket launched to calibrate SDO instrument

October 22nd, 2013 by

NASA successfully launched a Black Brant IX sounding rocket on 21 October at 1800 UTC from the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, carrying instrumentation to support the calibration of the EUV Variability Experiment (EVE) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite.

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