Tag: Luxembourg
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Tiny nation, big ambitions: Luxembourg wants to be the NASA of asteroid mining
An artist’s conception shows a spacecraft extracting materials from a near-Earth asteroid. (Credit: Spaceresources.lu) Luxembourg intends to one day become a major hub for deep-space commercial operations. The country announced Wednesday it plans to help foster the growth of an asteroid-mining industry. Luxembourg, with a population roughly the size of Albuquerque (562,000), said it is…
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Successful Proton launch puts Astra 2G broadcast satellite in orbit
The Proton rocket lifted off with the ASTRA 2G satellite at 2137 GMT (4:37 p.m. EST) Saturday. Credit: Khrunichev A Russian Proton rocket fired six main engines and soared into space from Kazakhstan on Saturday, deploying a commercial communications satellite owned by SES for a 15-year mission linking Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The…
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Proton rocket on track for launch with European telecom satellite
The Proton rocket with the ASTRA 2G satellite rolled out to its launch pad Wednesday. Credit: Roscosmos A commercial broadcast satellite will blast off from Kazakhstan on Saturday aboard a Proton rocket to transmit television, multimedia and broadband services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Proton rocket is scheduled for launch at 2137:49…