America was in the throes of a national state of anxiety over the Soviet Union's launch of its Sputnik space satellites.
While in deep space Dish satellites continue to stay the course.
For example, similar technologies could be used to charge space vehicles, satellites and other assets with electric power .
Metal-rubber mirrors would be light and rugged, and would be ideal for use in cameras, space probes or satellites.
Moscow has experienced trouble retiring space stations or satellites in the past.
Orbital debris could block all these benefits for centuries and prevent us from developing clean energy sources like space solar power satellites, exploring our Solar System and someday making humanity a multi-planetary civilization capable of surviving true climatic catastrophes.
The ability to refuel satellites in space could one day save satellite operators from the significant costs of building and launching new replacement satellites.
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This is already having consequences in space, creating glitches in satellites that rely on the field to protect them from solar and other space radiation.
Reaction Engines claim the system could dramatically lower the cost of putting satellites in space.
South Korea does already have satellites in space, but they were launched from other countries.
The official said the U.S. and Russia already benefit from satellites in space that monitor nuclear weapons facilities.
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The PSLV has so far successfully launched more than 50 satellites into space.
Its purpose is to guarantee access to space for the small satellites (up to 2.5 tonnes) built by European nations.
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Beryllium: used as a lightweight component in military equipment and in the aerospace industry. it is used in high-speed aircraft, missiles, space vehicles and communication satellites.
The results could help scientists better understand the swelling and shrinking of our planet's atmosphere, a phenomenon that affects the orbits of satellites and space junk.
Putin's remarks in no way alluded to these uses of satellites in space but appeared targeted specifically at moves in the U.S. to deploy a space-based missile-defense system.
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Chimera architecture removes those boundaries by providing the power to conduct nearly 100 billion mathematical operations per second to perform image processing, using computational techniques used in X-ray CT scanners, deep space telescopes and spy satellites.
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"We can put satellites into space at a fraction of the price that it currently costs, " he says and Virgin is working with a "tiny little" company (the name of which hasn't yet been publicly disclosed) to do just that.
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The need to acquire as much information as possible before acting in a crisis situation also explains why the United States is currently orbiting a new generation of space-based infrared satellites that can detect missile launches and nuclear detonations within seconds after they occur.
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Unlike conventional rockets that blast off from a pad, air-launched systems similar to the one Mr. Allen wants to put together are designed to deliver a broad range of satellites to space without the constraints of weather or optimal times and locations to try to reach specific orbits.
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Such detailed, small-scale measurements of a three-dimensional region of space would be impossible without satellites flying in formation.
But Rumsfeld stopped short of proposing any new defenses for satellites or other space-based systems, saying the United States remains committed to the peaceful use of space.
In both cases, the cause appeared to be a problem with the Taurus XL rockets used as a vehicle by the space agency to launch the satellites into orbit.
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Filler also pointed out that there are solar cells that operate at closer to 40% efficiency rates, but they are so expensive that they are mainly used by NASA for spacecraft, satellites and other space-related applications.
Will Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic's president, said that one of the things which attracted Aabar was the fact that White Knight (an aircraft which lifts to high altitude a rocket that can then take either passengers or satellites onwards into space) could be flown from Abu Dhabi.
Eventually the company is hoping to use its research to create orbiting systems that can fling other satellites into deep space, but seeing how the last Dnepr rocket crashed and burned on liftoff in 2006, Team Tether is probably best off taking this endeavor one step at a time.
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The Clementine II, Kinetic-Kill Anti-Satellite and Military Space Plane programs are the technological seed corn for such crucial capabilities as space-based missile defenses, neutralizing enemy satellites and having prompt, reliable and inexpensive access to and use of space.
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In 2008 the Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched 10 satellites in a single mission.
Prime contractor for the system is France's Alcatel Space, who will provide the satellites and ground facilities.
South Korean satellites were already in space, launched from countries including Japan, the United States and Russia.
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