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Romanian space launch postponed
Bucharest, Romania (UPI) Nov 13, 2009 Inclement weather postponed Friday's launch of the Helen Rocket -- Romania's first attempt to reach space, authorities said. Officials from the Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association were to try again Saturday to launch Helen over the Black Sea with the aid of Romanian Military Marine officials and a balloon, Romanian Hot News reported. The world's largest solar balloon is to lift Helen to an altitude of about 8 miles before the rocket's engines fire and propel it into suborbital space. The project's final phase calls for the retrieval from the Black Sea of video and radio equipment to be sent up with Helen. The use of a solar balloon and oxygenated water, an ecologically sustainable fuel, to launch a rocket is a first, researchers said. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Seeing Stars, Proba-2 Platform Passes Its First Health CheckParis, France (ESA) Nov 12, 2009 Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, among the smallest ever flown by ESA. As ESA's full-sized Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission soared skyward by Rockot launcher on 2 November, it had a smaller companion. ... read more |
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