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Archive for October 2nd, 2014

Ariane 5 rolls out to Final Assembly Building for October launch

October 2nd, 2014 by

Ariane 5 is on the move as launcher and payload preparations continue in French Guiana for Arianespace’s upcoming dual-passenger mission at the service of Intelsat, DirecTV and ARSAT.

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New launch contract for exactEarth’s M3M satellite

October 2nd, 2014 by

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has signed a contract with the Antrix Corporation (the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation) to launch the M3M satellite on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from India in 2015.

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New theory emerges in Soyuz launch failure investigation

October 2nd, 2014 by

The partial launch failure of a Soyuz carrying two Galileo navigation satellites was reportedly caused by a frozen fuel pipe in the rocket’s Fregat upper stage.

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U.S., India to collaborate on Mars exploration, Earth-observing mission

October 2nd, 2014 by

In a recent meeting, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed two documents to launch a NASA-ISRO satellite mission to observe Earth and establish a pathway for future joint missions to explore Mars.

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