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Monday, 05 December 2011 13:03

ISRO

ISRO is the Indian Space Research Organisation. The objective of ISRO is to develop space technology and its application to…

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  • Country of Registration India
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Monday, 05 December 2011 13:31

Roscosmos

The Russian Federal Space Agency (Russian: Федеральное космическое агентство России Federal'noye kosmicheskoye agentstvo Rossii), commonly called Roscosmos (Роскосмос Roskosmos) and…

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  • Country of Registration Russia
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Tuesday, 06 December 2011 12:43

Kepler (mission & spacecraft)

The Kepler spacecraft is an American space observatory, the space-based portion of NASA's Kepler mission to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The spacecraft is named in honor of the…

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Tuesday, 06 December 2011 12:55

SOHO (mission & spacecraft)

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission purpose is to study the Sun from a point of gravitational balance. The SOHO spacecraft has been built by a European industrial consortium…

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  • Lead Nation USA
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Tuesday, 06 December 2011 13:11

Voyager program

The Voyager program is a U.S program that launched two unmanned space missions, scientific probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a…

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Sunday, 11 December 2011 05:51

Discovery program

Not to be confused with Space Shuttle Discovery. NASA's Discovery Program (as compared to New Frontiers, Explorers, or Flagship Programs) is a series of lower-cost, highly-focused American scientific space missions…

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Sunday, 11 December 2011 06:30

Mars Pathfinder

Mars Pathfinder (MESUR Pathfinder) was an American spacecraft that landed a base station with roving probe onMars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station,…

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Monday, 12 December 2011 17:19

Space Shuttle program

The NASA's Space Shuttle program, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011. The winged Space Shuttle orbiter was…

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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 08:20

Chandra X-ray Observatory

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a satellite launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. It was named in honor of Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekharwho is known for determining…

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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 08:29

Sputnik program

Sputnik, a Russian word meaning "companion" or "satellite", is a name applied to certain spacecraft launched under the Soviet space program. "Sputnik 1", "Sputnik 2" and "Sputnik 3" were the…

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  • Lead Nation Russia
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