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Archive for December, 2013

Skybox Imaging captures first high-resolution video of Earth from space

December 27th, 2013 by

Skybox Imaging announced the release of the world’s first high-resolution, high-definition video of Earth taken by a commercial remote sensing satellite. These videos were taken by SkySat-1, the first of Skybox’s planned constellation of 24 satellites.

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Rokot launches three military communication satellites

December 26th, 2013 by

Rocket: Rokot/Briz-KM; Payload: three Rodnik satellites [Kosmos-2488, Kosmos-2489, Kosmos-2490]; Date: 25 December 2013, 0031 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The three military satellites have reached their target orbit, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said.

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Proton lifts off with Ekspress AM5 satellite

December 26th, 2013 by

Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Ekspress AM5; Date: 26 December 2013, 1049 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Separation of the satellite from the upper stage took place at 2012 UTC, the inofficial RussianSpaceWeb.com web site reported.

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Delay of the day: Soyuz-2.1v (again)

December 26th, 2013 by

The first test launch of the new Russian light rocket Soyuz-2.1v (aka Soyuz ‘light’) from the Plesetsk cosmodrome has been postponed until 27 December.

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SBIRS GEO-3 payload delivered

December 23rd, 2013 by

The missile warning sensor for the third Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Orbiting (GEO) satellite completed final acceptance testing and was shipped to Lockheed Martin Space Systems company (LMSSC) in Sunnyvale, California, for final integration on 18 December 2013.

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100th satellite equipped with Saft Li-ion batteries launched

December 23rd, 2013 by

Saft said the company achieved a milestone when the 100th satellite to use the company’s pioneering Li-ion battery technology launched earlier this month.

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Soyuz launches Gaia

December 19th, 2013 by

Rocket: Soyuz-STB/Fregat; Payload: Gaia; Date: 19 December 2013, 0912 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. The workhorse launcher performed a powered phase of its three lower stages, and two burns of the autonomous Fregat upper stage to deploy Gaia, which had an estimated lift-off mass of 2,034 kg and was released 41 minutes and 59 seconds after lift-off.

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NASA awards launch services contract for InSight mission

December 19th, 2013 by

NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC to launch the Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to Mars.

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