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ABC NewsRadio axes StarStuff program – why?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-06-26 09:14:48
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!


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Two more satellites boosted by Ariane 5
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science

Category: Space

2008-06-12 22:59:19
A successful Ariane 5 ECA launch has placed a pair of telecommunications satellites into orbit.


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Russia announces no more space tourists, new launch facility, new heavy-lift rocket
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2008-04-14 12:59:36
President Vladimir Putin announced that the new Russian Cosmodrome—Vostochny—will be completed by 2015 and that a new heavy-lift Angara launch vehicle will be developed. The RSA, Russia’s space agency, announced that it will probably not carry space tourists to the ISS beginning in 2010.


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March 17, 2008: Vanguard 1 celebrates fifty years in space
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Energy

2008-03-17 09:55:46
Vanguard 1, the fourth artificial satellite launched into space, is the oldest human-made object still orbiting about the Earth. Congratulations--Vanguard 1--on your pioneering efforts in space exploration!   
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DISH Network loses new satellite via Russian Proton rocket
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2008-03-17 08:28:50
On Saturday, March 15, 2008, the Breeze-M (Briz-M) upper stage of a Russian Proton rocket failed on its second burn, which left its Americom-14 (AMC-14) communications satellite useless in space. The satellite would have provided home services for DISH Network customers.       
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Jules Verne ready for launch
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science

Category: Space

2008-03-05 17:45:11
Jules Verne, the ESA's first Automated Transfer Vehicle, has been declared ready for launch.


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NRO to launch NROL-28 satellite after failure of NROL-21
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2008-02-25 09:18:15
The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is scheduled to launch a classified spacecraft payload, NROL-28, on Friday, February 29, 2008. Its non-functioning NROL-21 satellite was in the news lately because it had to be shot down by the U.S. Navy with one of its missiles.        
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