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PW-Sat, Poland's first satellite launched into orbit
www.spacedaily.com | 6 hours 18 minutes ago
Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Feb 14, 2012 - On the 13th of February 2012, the first Polish satellite - PW-Sat - was successfully deployed on orbit. The first Polish satellite, built by students, was successfully launched on the 13th of Februa

IN FOCUS: Israel responds to need for lighter rockets
www.flightglobal.com | 12 hours 51 minutes ago
Israel is one of the few nations in its region with a credible space programme. The country has been launching its own satellites and rockets for decades,...

Iran Launches New Home-Made Satellite into Orbit
www.spacemart.com | Feb 10, 2012
Tehran, Iran (FNA) Feb 10, 2012 - Iran on Friday successfully sent another domestically-made satellite, named 'Navid-e Elm-o Sana'at' (Promise of Science and Industry), into orbit. The satellite was sent to space following a d

Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites
www.space-travel.com | Feb 10, 2012
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 10, 2012 - ESA and Eurockot have signed contracts for launching two ESA satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A will fly in 2013 on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe's

LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory
www.newscientist.com | Feb 8, 2012
A small satellite that will measure whether Earth drags space-time as it spins will launch from Kourou, French Guiana, on a new European Space Agency

ORS-1, ground system gain final ops acceptance
www.spacewar.com | Feb 7, 2012
Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Feb 07, 2012 - When Gen. William Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command, declared the Operationally Responsive Space-1 satellite had achieved final operational capability in early January, the announcement

Galileo GPS Project Faces More Certain Future
www.defenseindustrydaily.com | Feb 6, 2012
2nd large contract series; EC: We want another EUR 7 billion; New build site opened; 1st operational launch; Article updates. (Feb (Last update: 2012-02-07 06:01:44 GMT)

On Space
www.aviationweek.com | Feb 3, 2012
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Eight more Galileo navsats agreed
www.gpsdaily.com | Feb 3, 2012
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 03, 2012 - ESA has signed a contract to build a further eight Galileo satellites, alongside other agreements to modify Europe's Ariane 5 launcher to carry four navigation satellites at a time. The signin

defence.professionals | defpro.com
www.defpro.com | Feb 2, 2012
The early 2007 anti-satellite test carried out by China, besides sending shock waves across the world, seriously jolted the Indian defence establishment into thinking about strategies required to...