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    The Churchill Rocket Research Range is a Canadian former rocket launch site located 23 kilometres (14 mi) outside Churchill, Manitoba. The facility was...
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    War. Facilities at Fort Churchill supported the Canadian and American operations of the nearby Churchill Rocket Research Range beginning in the 1950s....
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  • announced in 2011 it was researching locations in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, or the potential reopening of the Churchill Rocket Research Range in Manitoba for a...
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    first test flight took place only two years later from the Churchill Rocket Research Range in September 1959. CARDE's attention later turned to long-distance...
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    was also the site of the Churchill Rocket Research Range, part of Canadian-American atmospheric research. Its first rocket was launched in 1956, and...
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  • Fort Churchill may refer to: Fort Churchill, a former military installation that is now the Churchill Airport Churchill Rocket Research Range, a former...
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  • article constitutes a list of rocket launch sites. Some of these sites are known as spaceports or cosmodromes. A single rocket launch is sufficient for inclusion...
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    contracted with Blue Origin on their New Glenn rocket and Relativity Space with their Terran 1 rocket, for satellite launches to their LEO constellation...
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  • Canadian research satellite launched at 04:48 UTC on November 29, 1965, by a Thor Agena rocket with Explorer 31 from the Western test range at Vandenberg...
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    McGill, she carried out research in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the National Research Council Flight Research Laboratory on flame...
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    robot attracted NASA's attention. In 1975, NASA and the Canadian National Research Council (NRC) signed a memorandum of understanding that Canada would develop...
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    Alouette 1 was launched via Thor-Agena-B two-stage rocket by NASA from the Pacific Missile Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA at 06:05...
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  • (1969-009A) was launched at 6h43 UTC on January 30, 1969, by a Delta rocket at the Western test range at Vandenberg AFB in California. Unlike the Alouette satellites...
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    communications satellite that was launched on November 21, 2000, by an Ariane 4 rocket from the European Space Agency Centre Spatial Guyanais at Kourou. At the...
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    Richard, stating she had brought Richard, who was known as "The Rocket", into the rocket to celebrate the hockey team's 100th anniversary. During 2011–2013...
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    International partners ESA NASA ISRO JAXA SNSB Other Bell Satellite TV Churchill Rocket Research Range International Space Station Lunar Gateway Shaw Direct...
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  • 2013. Sapphire was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), using a PSLV-CA rocket, flight C20. The launch occurred at 12:31 on 25 February...
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    Roberta Bondar (category Canadian medical researchers)
    space. After more than a decade as head of an international space medicine research team collaborating with NASA, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in...
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    International partners ESA NASA ISRO JAXA SNSB Other Bell Satellite TV Churchill Rocket Research Range International Space Station Lunar Gateway Shaw Direct...
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    James Webb Space Telescope (category Spacecraft launched by Ariane rockets)
    habitable exoplanets. The Webb was launched on 25 December 2021 on an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. In January 2022 it arrived at its destination...
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    He was the first CF-18 pilot to intercept a Soviet Tupolev Tu 95 long-range bomber in the Canadian Arctic. In the late 1980s, Hadfield attended the...
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    operational spaceport in Canada, after the abandonment of the Churchill Rocket Research Range in the 1990s, and the first commercial spaceport for orbital...
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  • satellites were launched on 12 June 2019 at 14:17 UTC on board a Falcon 9 rocket. Originally booster B1050 was planned to be used for this mission. However...
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    with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944. Research of military use of long-range rockets began when the graduate studies of Wernher von Braun...
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    canoeing, flying, parachuting and gymnastics. In 2013 he returned to physics research as an associate member of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at...
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    Aerobee (redirect from Aerobee rocket)
    Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia; Eglin AFB in Florida; Churchill Rocket Research Range in Manitoba, Canada; and Woomera, South Australia. Aerobees...
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  • Renaissance II: Canadian Creativity and Innovation in the New Millennium. NRC Research Press. ISBN 9780660183978. Lowey, Mark (July 4, 1992). "Calgary astronaut...
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    Science degree in physics at the Royal Military College in 2000, with a research focus on wide field of view satellite tracking. In 2013, Hansen served...
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  • Radarsat-2 (category Spacecraft launched by Soyuz-FG rockets)
    observation satellite. It launched on 14 December 2007 aboard a Starsem Soyuz-FG rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is owned by MDA (formerly...
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    locations on the exterior of the ISS. Finally, Dextre supports scientific research and robotics development through experiments such as the Robotics External...
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