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Russia on Thursday successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex, a lift-off that comes after two aborted attempts earlier this week. The first attempt to launch the Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny spaceport on Tuesday was cancelled about two minutes before the scheduled liftoff due to a failure of the pressurization system of the oxidizer tank in the central block of the rocket. The second attempted launch on Wednesday was also aborted by the automatic safety system, which registered a flaw in the engine start control mechanism, said Yuri Borisov, h...
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Seoul (AFP) - South Korea put its second domestically made spy satellite into orbit, Seoul's defence ministry said Monday, after it launched from an American space centre on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite successfully communicated with an overseas ground station shortly afterwards, the ministry said. "Our military's second reconnaissance satellite successfully separated from the launch vehicle at around 09:02 (1202 GMT) and entered the target orbit," the defence ministry said in a statement. The satellite "successfully established contact with an overseas ground station at approximat...
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Séoul (AFP) - La Corée du Sud a annoncé lundi avoir placé en orbite un deuxième satellite militaire espion, dans un contexte d'intensification de la course à l'espace avec son voisin nord-coréen. Ce satellite, fabriqué sur son territoire et embarqué dans une fusée Falcon 9 de Space X, a établi une communication avec une station terrestre à l'étranger peu de temps après, a indiqué le ministère sud-coréen de la Défense dans un communiqué. "Le deuxième satellite de reconnaissance de notre armée s'est séparé avec succès du véhicule de lancement vers 09H02 (00H02 GMT) et est entré dans l'orbite cib...
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Japan's Space One Kairos rocket exploded immediately after lift-off, leaving a plume of smoke, fire and fragments of machinery in its wake.
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Son vol n'aura duré que quelques secondes. Baptisée Kairos, la toute première fusée privée japonaise a explosé mercredi peu après son lancement au centre du Japon, dans la région de Wakayama. La scène a été diffusée en direct lors du décollage dans une zone montagneuse. L'explosion a provoqué un énorme panache de fumée et les débris en feu sont retombés près du pas de tir. Aucun blessé n'a été signalé dans l'immédiat. La start-up Space One, basée à Tokyo, à l'origine du lancement de la fusée, n'a pas immédiatement répondu à une demande de commentaire. Le tir de Kairos avait été retardé à plusi...
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A rocket touted as Japan’s first from the private sector to go into orbit exploded shortly after lift-off. Video showed the rocket, called Kairos, blasting off from Wakayama Prefecture, central Japan, a mountainous area filled with trees, but exploding mid-air within seconds. A huge plume of smoke engulfed the area, and what appeared to be flames could also be seen in some spots. The video then showed spurts of water shooting toward that spot in an effort to put out the blaze. Tokyo-based start-up Space One, behind the rocket launch, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The la...
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Seoul (AFP) - North Korea said Thursday it would deploy new weapons and stronger armed forces to the border with the South, as Seoul's spy agency said Pyongyang had received Russian help to successfully put a military spy satellite into orbit. Tuesday's launch of the "Malligyong-1" was Pyongyang's third attempt at securing a military eye in the sky after two failures in May and August. North Korean state media claimed within hours of the launch that leader Kim Jong Un was already reviewing images of US military bases in Guam. Seoul's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers the launch had...
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Seoul (AFP) - North Korea said Thursday it was suspending a five-year-old accord reached with South Korea to reduce military tensions -- the latest retaliatory fallout over Pyongyang's spy satellite launch. The angry statement from the nuclear-armed North's defence ministry came after state media claimed leader Kim Jong Un was already reviewing images of US military bases in Guam sent by Pyongyang's new eye in the sky. With the United States leading allies in slamming Tuesday's satellite launch as a "brazen violation" of UN sanctions, the South moved Wednesday to partially suspend the 2018 dea...
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Washington (AFP) - US authorities said they have issued a "breakthrough" first-ever fine over space debris, slapping a $150,000 penalty on a TV company that failed to properly dispose of a satellite. On Monday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) came down on Dish for "failure to properly deorbit" a satellite called EchoStar-7, in orbit since 2002. "This marks a first in space debris enforcement by the Commission, which has stepped up its satellite policy efforts," the FCC, which authorizes space-based telecom services, said in a statement. As the geostationary satellite came to the end...
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Washington (AFP) - Virgin Orbit, the satellite launch company founded by Richard Branson, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will sell the business, the firm said in a statement Tuesday. The California-based company said last week it was laying off 85 percent of its employees -- around 675 people -- to reduce expenses due to its inability to secure sufficient funding. Virgin Orbit suffered a major setback earlier this year when an attempt to launch the first rocket into space from British soil ended in failure. The company had organized the mission with the UK Space Agency and Cornwall Sp...
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