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BBC News
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US space agency managers have given the go-ahead for the space shuttle to launch on Thursday of next week.
Atlantis has been dogged by an errant fuel sensor system, but Nasa is sure this is now fixed and has confirmed lift-off for 1947 GMT on 7 Februar..
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BBC News
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The US space agency Nasa has delayed launch of the Atlantis shuttle until 2008 because of a persistent problem with a sensor on a fuel tank.
Two attempts to launch the shuttle have been cancelled since Thursday, and only a few days remained for launch..
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CNN
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Since the beginning of the year, NASA has endured an astronaut's arrest in a bizarre love triangle, a workplace murder-suicide and a freak hail storm at the launch pad.
What it hasn't had is a space shuttle launch.
NASA hoped to change all that with..
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BBC News
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A Nasa space telescope is about to launch on a mission to explore the Universe with "gamma-ray glasses".
The Glast mission will shed light on some of the most violent events in the Universe, that release massive amounts of energy in the form of gamma-r..
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BBC News
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The launch of the third and final satellite in the UK's next-generation military space communications network has been delayed by a few days.
The Skynet 5C platform was due to fly from French Guiana on Friday but technicians called a halt to the countd..
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BBC News
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Europe's new ATV space truck is up and running following Sunday's launch, although one propulsion glitch means a back-up system is currently being used.
The freighter is sitting in a 260km high orbit and is due to deliver just under five tonnes of supp..
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BBC News
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The battle against climate change has been described by a church leader as a "moral issue", at the launch of a strategy to reduce UK electricity use.
The Bishop of London said parts of the world are already affected by change.
Energy Saving Day, whi..
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BBC News
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Virgin Galactic has released the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space.
It is based on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne concept - a rocket ship that is lifted initially by a carrier plane before blasting sky..
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BBC News
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The Sea Launch company has returned to flight with a mission to loft a telecoms satellite to serve the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.
The firm's Zenit 3SL rocket lifted off from its converted oil rig platform stationed in the Pacific at 1149..
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BBC News
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Nasa says work on the Atlantis space shuttle's problematic fuel sensor system will push back the launch of the Columbus lab to perhaps February.
The European module was supposed to fly to the space station on the orbiter in December before erratic sens..
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MSNBC
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The space shuttle Atlantis’ mission to the international space station likely will be pushed back a few more days or weeks as engineers study problems with electrical connectors in the spaceship’s external fuel tank, a top NASA manager said Thursday...
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MSNBC
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Alan BoyleScience editorMSNBC
During Tuesday's test, the hydrogen tank will be filled at the launch pad while technicians use a diagnostic tool called a time-domain reflectometer to monitor the fuel-sensor system's wiring. The reflectometer should indi..
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MSNBC
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NASA says it will fill up the space shuttle Atlantis’ fuel tank next week to diagnose a fuel-gauge problem that led to back-to-back launch delays.
Next Tuesday's tanking test could lead to a quick fix, putting Atlantis back on track for a launch as e..
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BBC News
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Nasa officials have delayed the launch of space shuttle Atlantis until at least Saturday after engineers reported faults on two fuel gauges.
Two of the four sensors in the craft's external fuel tank indicated that the tank was dry, even though there wa..
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MSNBC
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A European rocket loaded with two satellites blasted off Wednesday evening from a launch pad in South America despite partially cloudy conditions at liftoff.
The Ariane 5 rocket took off from the Kourou launch center and cruised through a deck of broke..
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BBC News
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The launch of Britain's Skynet 5B spacecraft from Kourou in French Guiana has been postponed again.
The flight of the sophisticated new military communications satellite was called off when a fault was detected in pipework feeding the launch pad.
It..
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MSNBC
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NASA moved space shuttle Atlantis to its seaside launch pad on Saturday ahead of a planned early December mission to get Europe's first permanent space laboratory into orbit.
Riding on top of a 3,000-ton Apollo-era crawler transporter, Atlantis left th..
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BBC News
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The UK is due to continue the upgrade to its military satellite communications system with the launch of a new spacecraft on Friday.
The Skynet 5B platform will ride into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport, in French Guiana.
It..
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BBC News
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China intends to launch its own space station in 2020, according to one of the country's leading space experts.
Rocket designer Long Lehao told state media scientists were on track to send "a small-scale 20-ton space workshop" into the Earth's orbit...
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BBC News
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Space Shuttle Discovery has begun a 14-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), after a successful launch from the Kennedy Space Center.
Despite earlier concerns about poor weather, the shuttle blasted off at 1138 local time (1638 BST)...
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