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Tehran -
Iranian state media have reported that the country has successfully launched a new domestically-built small satellite into orbit on Friday, using technology that can be converted for launching intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM).
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A satellite has snapped an image of the Costa Concordia shipwreck. The luxury ocean liner is shown in the image through clouds half-submerged off the coast of Giglio, Italy after it hit a reef on January 13.
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Moscow -
Phobos-Grunt, Russia's Mars probe has fallen back to Earth. Reports indicate that the probe was destroyed over the Pacific Ocean.
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Moscow -
A Russian communications satellite launched on Friday crashed into Siberia minutes after launch. The Russian defense ministry said the crash was due to rocket failure. The satellite was launched on a Soyuz-2 from Plesetsk Cosmodrone in northern Russia.
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Beijing -
A satellite captured China's first aircraft carrier sailing off China's coast on the Yellow sea on Thursday. It is believed that this is the first time the 300-metre aircraft carrier has been photographed at sea since it was launched in August.
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Levels of coal produced sulfur dioxide, a major air pollutant, are falling across eastern USA according to a special NASA satellite tasked with measuring the quality of the Earth's atmosphere.
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NanoSail-D2, the solar sail satellite deployed in low-Earth orbit, has successfully reentered into the Earth's atmosphere, says NASA.
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NASA will track the path of asteroid 2005 YU55 as it safely zooms past Earth slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. That day, the asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 3:28 p.m. PST.
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The decommissioned German Roentgen Satellite or ROSAT is expected to fall back to Earth in just a few days. While not many, if any, people are expected to be physically hurt, they are free to watch ROSAT in the sky before it re-enters the atmosphere.
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Cologne -
Officials at the European Space Agency have published warnings that the defunct 1.8-ton X-ray satellite Röntgensatellit (ROSAT) is set to fall to Earth in the next few weeks when it re-enters our planet's atmosphere.
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Satellite Headlines
How drones and satellites are catching farming cheats
UKube-1 is the first complete satellite to be built in Scotland and is taking shape in Glasgow.
 Swiss scientists plan to launch a "janitor satellite" specially designed to get rid of space junk, the orbiting debris that can seriously damage satellites and manned space ships.
China moves closer to completing its own navigation and positioning satellite network Beidou with the launch of two more navigation satellites.
The first satellite to be built in Scotland is due to be launched next year as part of a pilot programme for the UK Space Agency.
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