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Navigation satellite launched to join Russia’s Glonass network
Read more →: Navigation satellite launched to join Russia’s Glonass networkA new Russian navigation satellite lifted off Saturday on top of a Soyuz rocket, riding the three-stage booster…
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Dawn spacecraft flying low over Ceres
Read more →: Dawn spacecraft flying low over CeresThis image of Ceres’ limb was obtained by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft May 30 from an altitude of about…
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Hey, kids: Put a rocket in space and win a million dollars in Base 11 Space Challenge
Read more →: Hey, kids: Put a rocket in space and win a million dollars in Base 11 Space ChallengeNews Brief: Students from colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada are being recruited for the Base…
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NASA’s most experienced astronaut, Peggy Whitson, hangs up her space helmet
Read more →: NASA’s most experienced astronaut, Peggy Whitson, hangs up her space helmetNASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is framed by one of the windows in the International Space Station’s Cupola during…
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Gaofen-6 satellite Data Successfully Received
Read more →: Gaofen-6 satellite Data Successfully ReceivedBEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) — The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed that one of its institutes Monday…
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China Launches Fengyun-2H Meteorological Satellite
Read more →: China Launches Fengyun-2H Meteorological SatelliteXICHANG, June 5 (China Space News) — China on Tuesday launched the new Fengyun-2H meteorological satellite to improve…
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Relay satellite for Chang’e-4 lunar probe enters planned orbit
Read more →: Relay satellite for Chang’e-4 lunar probe enters planned orbitThe relay satellite for the Chang’e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of…
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Station astronauts install new cameras on successful spacewalk
Read more →: Station astronauts install new cameras on successful spacewalkCosmonaut Oleg Artemyev took this photo of astronaut Drew Feustel on Thursday’s spacewalk. Credit: Oleg Artemyev/Roscosmos Two astronauts…
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SpinLaunch raises $40M from Airbus, Google and others for space catapult
Read more →: SpinLaunch raises $40M from Airbus, Google and others for space catapultSpinLaunch’s hangar is home to a vehicle that’s designed to be launched from a catapult. (SpinLaunch Photo) A…
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Tech titan Nathan Myhrvold revisits NASA asteroid argument in peer-reviewed paper
Read more →: Tech titan Nathan Myhrvold revisits NASA asteroid argument in peer-reviewed paperin his office at Intellectual Ventures in Bellevue, Wash., Nathan Myhrvold shows off a fragment of the Chelyabinsk…
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Spacewalkers install HD video cameras to monitor future SpaceX and Boeing trips
Read more →: Spacewalkers install HD video cameras to monitor future SpaceX and Boeing tripsNASA astronaut Ricky Arnold looks out from the International Space Station’s Quest airlock at the beginning of a…
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Huge dust storm knocks aging Mars rover out of contact with Earth
Read more →: Huge dust storm knocks aging Mars rover out of contact with EarthSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION This series of images shows simulated views of a darkening Martian…