From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2013 3:07 PM
Subject: Falcon 9 rocket launches first commercial telecom payload
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SPACESHIPS SCALED TO FIT ON YOUR DESK
Beautifully crafted models of rockets and spaceships. The mighty Delta 4 Heavy and Atlas 5 rockets now available in two sizes.
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FALCON 9 ROCKET LAUNCHES FIRST COMMERCIAL TELECOM PAYLOAD
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A kerosene-fueled Falcon 9 launch vehicle owned and operated by SpaceX climbed away from Florida's Space Coast on Tuesday, steering into orbit more than 50,000 miles above Earth with a television broadcasting satellite in a successful flight signaling the changing landscape of the commercial launch industry.
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/007/131203launch/
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http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/007/press/
MISSION STATUS CENTER:
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/007/status.html
X-RAY TELESCOPE, GRAVITY WAVE PROBE TO BE LED BY ESA
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The European Space Agency has decided its next two big science missions, each costing more than $1.3 billion, will be a massive X-ray telescope and a long-proposed observatory to confirm the existence of gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1312/02cosmicvision/
ATLAS 5 LAUNCH SET FOR THURSDAY NIGHT
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An Atlas 5 rocket is scheduled to launch a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office on Thursday, and the preliminary forecast shows cold temperatures at the California launch site will be the only weather concern.
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av043/status.html
GPM SATELLITE DELIVERED TO JAPAN AFTER SHUTDOWN DELAY
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An international satellite built to extend and expand precipitation measurements from space has arrived at its Japanese launch site after a trans-Pacific flight from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1312/01gpm/
LONG MARCH ROCKET BLASTS OFF WITH CHINESE LUNAR ROVER
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A six-wheeled robotic rover named Yutu rode a Long March rocket into space Sunday on China's first lunar landing mission, marking an auspicious start to a four-day journey to the moon.
http://spaceflightnow.com/china/change3/131201launch/
GUIDE TO THE PLANETS FOR iPAD
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From tiny Mercury to distant Neptune and Pluto, this interactive guide to the planets from Astronomy Now magazine takes you on a tour of our Solar System and beyond.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/planets-astronomy-now-guide/id633956878?ls=1&mt=8
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