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The payload module structure of the telecommunications spacecraft Ekspress-AT1, manufactured by the Reshetnev Company, was sent to Thales Alenia Space France to accommodate payload instruments.
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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, which scientists announced they have named for the late author Ray Bradbury.
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U.S. Air Force Space Command said the new Space Based Surveillance Satellite had achieved its initial level of capability and was ready to support U.S. military requirements nearly two years after the satellite was launched. The delay was linked to problems with a piece of electronics on board.
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China will launch several space projects, including a hard X-ray telescope for black hole studies, between 2014 and 2016, according to Su Dingqiang, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former president of the Chinese Astronomical Society.
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NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth as one of our solar system’s rocky planets.
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The Russian Progress M-15M transport ship has been de-orbited and sank in the Pacific on 20 August.
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NASA’s Space Technology Program has selected five technologies that could revolutionise America’s space capabilities.
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