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Archive for July 25th, 2019

First successful orbital launch by Chinese commercial company

July 25th, 2019 by

Rocket: Hyperbola-1; Payload: CAS 7B, others ; Date: 25 July, 0500 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China. It was the first successful orbital launch by a privately funded Chinese firm.

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OneWeb plans to start monthly launches in December

July 25th, 2019 by

OneWeb plans to begin launching 35 to 40 communications satellites a month in December, and has 27 Soyuz rocket missions lined up through Arianespace to send them aloft, company officials said.

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Construction of JUICE’s inner structure started

July 25th, 2019 by

Airbus Defence and Space has completed the first step in the construction of the inner structure of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) JUICE satellite. This is the beginning of its earthly journey through different Airbus sites in Europe (Lampoldshausen, Friedrichshafen and Toulouse) towards final integration.

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Fuelling of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover power system begins

July 25th, 2019 by

NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, has given the go-ahead to begin fuelling the Mars 2020 rover’s Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, or MMRTG.

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Chandrayaan2 completes 2nd Earth bound manoeuvre

July 25th, 2019 by

The second earth bound orbit raising manoeuvre for Chandryaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully as planned.

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First of two Van Allen probes spacecraft shut down

July 25th, 2019 by

On 19 July 2019, mission operators sent a shutdown command to one of two Van Allen Probes spacecraft, known as spacecraft B, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, or APL, in Laurel, Maryland.

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