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Astrosat is India's first dedicated astronomy satellite and is scheduled to launch on board the PSLV in 2012. After the success of the satellite-borne Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE), which…
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The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is an unmanned automatic vehicle sent into orbit by the European Ariane 5 launcher. It provides the International Space Station with: cargo, water, air, nitrogen,…
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Aurora Max is a project who shows auroras of Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada). This project allows to amateur astronomers to watch auroras until the solar maximum, in 2013. Aurora Max…
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AVATAR (from "Aerobic Vehicle for Hypersonic Aerospace TrAnspoRtation") was a concept development effort for a single-stage reusable spaceplane capable of horizontal takeoff and landing, by India's Defense Research and Development…
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The BRRISON mission is an unprecedented rapid response to the opportunity presented by the discovery of comet ISON, providing a new planetary science platform which will fly above 99.5 percent…
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The BeiDou Navigation System is a project of China to develop an independent satellite navigation system. It may refer to either one or both generations of the Chinese navigation system.…
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BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. It will set off in 2015 on a journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. When it…
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BLUEsat, an acronym of Basic Low-Earth-orbit University of NSW Experimental satellite, is a digital amateur radio satellite being designed and built solely by students here at the University of NSW.…
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The Boeing 601 satellite is a body-stabilized geostationary satellite. The Boeing 601 was introduced in 1987 to meet anticipated requirements for high-power, multiple-payload satellites for such applications as direct television…
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The Boeing 702 satellite is a family of geostationnary satellites designed and manufactured by the company Boeing. Its design requirements include lower cost and high reliability. It offers a broad…
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BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is an open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. It was originally developed to support the SETI@home project before it…
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The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made. The starting point for Bolshoi was the best ground-…