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- 3 successes for Europa
- Historic launch of first Galileo navigation-satellittes
- Spaceship Company one step closer to space tourism
- "We have lost control of the space environment"
- Plans for space-reactors
- China to launch space station module
- Danish rocket-launch friday
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- US Defence plans for "100 year spaceship" to nearest stars
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- First European launch of a Soyuz rocket
- SpaceX milestone accomplished
- Nanosail descends to Earth
- NASA awards contracts for commercial crew-transportation
- Students launches record-breaking balloon
- SpaceX announces its Falcon Heavy rocket
- Private solar-sale spaceship launches this summer
- European Space debris programme
- European launch order to spaceX
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China to launch space station module
Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:23
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China has announced the launch of the first module for their comming space station this month or at least this year. The MLaboratory named “Tiangong2” (“Heavenly Palace”) will orbit Earth the next few years, for China to practice docking and gaining experience. The Spacestation itself will be build in the 2020's |
