Tag: navigation
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Long March 3A rocket gives boost to Chinese navigation satellite
A Long March 3A rocket blasts off with a Beidou navigation satellite at 2011 GMT (4:11 p.m. EDT) Tuesday. Credit: Xinhua China’s Beidou navigation system received a new addition Tuesday with the successful launch of a fresh satellite aboard a Long March 3A rocket. The 172-foot-tall (52-meter) launcher blasted off at 2011 GMT (4:11 p.m.…
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Photos: Regional navigation aid blasts off from India
The sixth satellite in a series of seven orbiting navigation aids lifted off from India on Thursday, streaking into orbit aboard a 145-foot-tall (44-meter) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The IRNSS 1F satellite, weighing in at 3,141 pounds (1,425 kilograms), rode the four-stage PSLV’s 34th mission into space after a liftoff from the Second Launch Pad…
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Photos: Regional navigation aid blasts off from India
The sixth satellite in a series of seven orbiting navigation aids lifted off from India on Thursday, streaking into orbit aboard a 145-foot-tall (44-meter) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The IRNSS 1F satellite, weighing in at 3,141 pounds (1,425 kilograms), rode the four-stage PSLV’s 34th mission into space after a liftoff from the Second Launch Pad…
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PSLV deploys next satellite for Indian navigation network
An Indian navigation satellite lifted off Thursday aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, heading for a perch more than 22,000 miles over Africa to grow the country’s independent space-based positioning fleet. The sixth spacecraft in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched at 1031 GMT (5:31 a.m. EST) Thursday from the Satish Dhawan Space Center,…
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New GPS satellite begins transmitting to users around the globe
CAPE CANAVERAL — Air Force ground controllers have activated service aboard the newest Global Positioning System satellite, achieving that milestone for the final spacecraft in a dozen built in a manufacturing batch to update the constellation. The GPS 2F-12 craft was launched into the navigation network from Cape Canaveral atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas…
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Arianespace adds 12th launch to this year’s manifest
File photo of a Soyuz launch from French Guiana with two satellites for the Galileo navigation system. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – G. Barbaste Arianespace will fit in a launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana in May to deliver two more European Galileo navigation satellites to orbit, giving the…
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Videos: Atlas 5 caps a generation of GPS launches
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Global Positioning System 2F-12 satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, completing 27 years and 61 flights of the GPS 2 generation. See earlier GPS 2F-12 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Recap story: Last GPS satellite of its generation arrives in space
CAPE CANAVERAL — The main engine rumbling to life. Ice shards breaking free. The rocket lumbering off the pad. The battle against gravity being won once again. That was the scene at 8:38 a.m. EST (1338 GMT) Friday morning as the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 booster took flight to cap a generation of Global…
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Photos: Atlas 5 launches navigation craft from Cape Canaveral
A collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the GPS 2F-12 satellite for use by the U.S. military and billions of civilians around the world. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier GPS 2F-12 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Glonass navigation system reinforced by Soyuz launch
A Soyuz rocket blasted off from Russia’s northern cosmodrome Sunday, adding another satellite to the nation’s Glonass navigation fleet to replace an aging spacecraft. The Glonass M platform launched at 0021 GMT Sunday (7:21 p.m. EST Saturday) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military facility in the Arkhangelsk region about 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of…