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China launches two more Beidou navigation satellites
Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:57 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
China has moved a step closer to completing its own navigation and positioning satellite network with the launch of two more navigation satellites. It brings the Beidou system, which became operational with coverage of China last December, to 13 satellites. To have global cover …
Satellite spies on North Korea's countdown
Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:05 PM EDT
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Rocket with secret payload launches from Calif.
Tue Apr 3, 2012 7:30 PM EDT
A rocket carrying a top-secret payload blasted off Tuesday from the California coast.
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Delicate rescue saves stranded $1.7B US satellite
Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:48 AM EDT
Air Force ground controllers delicately rescued a $1.7 billion military communications satellite last year that had been stranded in the wrong orbit and at risk of blowing up — all possibly because a piece of cloth had been left in a critical fuel line during manufacture.
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North Korea vows to go ahead with rocket launch
Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:10 PM EDT
North Korea vowed Sunday to go ahead with plans to launch a long-range rocket, rejecting criticism in the West that it would scuttle recent diplomacy.
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Hacking into the space station - TIME
Seeded on Sat Mar 3, 2012 1:43 PM EST (TIME)
In detailed testimony delivered on Thursday to a House subcommittee on investigations and oversight, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin painted a disturbing picture of an agency under electronic siege...
Hackers had 'full functional control' of Nasa computers
Seeded on Fri Mar 2, 2012 3:45 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Hackers gained "full functional control" of key Nasa computers in 2011, the agency's inspector general has told US lawmakers. Paul K Martin said hackers took over Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) computers and "compromised the accounts of the most privileged JPL users". He sai …
Navy launches new communications satellite
Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:16 PM EST
The Navy has launched a new communications satellite after two weather-related scrubs last week.
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Robot Space 'Gas Attendant' Could Salvage Old Satellites by 2015 - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:47 AM EST (Yahoo! News)
Canada-based aerospace firm MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. is designing a spacecraft that will serve as an orbiting gas station and mechanic.
'Janitor satellite' made to clean up space junk
Seeded on Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:30 AM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Swiss scientists said Wednesday they plan to launch a "janitor satellite" specially designed to get rid of space junk, the orbiting debris that can do serious and costly damage to valuable satellites or even manned space ships.Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sc …
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