Today, February 9, officials from the European Space Agency and the Bremen, Germany-based Eurockot signed an agreement reserving a Russian-built Rockot delivery system for the upcoming launch of two ESA satellites.
Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A – part of the GMES Sentinel constellation program – are now s... |
9 February 2012
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The Russian space agency RosCosmos has been planning for its new family of rockets, the Angara, for many years. It sees them as the replacements for a large number of its current space vehicles, but the project has been plagued with delays for quite some time now, and progress has been slow. The Angara family was app... |
5 December 2009
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At around 04:50 local time (0150 GMT) this morning, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS), part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Living Planet Program, roared into the sky aboard a modified Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) SS-19. The Rockot delivery system took off from the P... |
2 November 2009
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After a long journey that lasted a few days, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, an important part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Living Planet Program, has been safely delivered to its launch site, the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in northern Russia. The spacecraft was designed and built by sou... |
18 September 2009
20:01 GMT |
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