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Atlas 5 rocket launches GOES-S satellite to watch Western weather and wildfires
Read more →: Atlas 5 rocket launches GOES-S satellite to watch Western weather and wildfiresThe GOES-S satellite is launched by an Atlas 5 rocket. (NASA via YouTube) A next-generation GOES-S weather satellite,…
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Scientists say they’ve detected birth of the first stars – and perhaps dark matter, too
Read more →: Scientists say they’ve detected birth of the first stars – and perhaps dark matter, tooThis artist’s rendering shows the universe’s first, massive, blue stars embedded in gaseous filaments, with the cosmic microwave…
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Soyuz spacecraft brings three station fliers home
Read more →: Soyuz spacecraft brings three station fliers homeSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-06 spaceship descends through a morning sky over Kazakhstan.…
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Second of NOAA’s “high-definition” weather satellites ready for launch
Read more →: Second of NOAA’s “high-definition” weather satellites ready for launchArtist’s concept of the GOES-S satellite in orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin The second satellite in a quartet of…
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Atlas 5/GOES-S launch timeline
Read more →: Atlas 5/GOES-S launch timelineThis is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape…
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Reconnaissance satellite launched by Japanese H-2A rocket
Read more →: Reconnaissance satellite launched by Japanese H-2A rocket今回のH-IIA F38打ち上げは、地表付近では陽炎が凄くて、ゆらゆら揺れて見えましたが、上空に行くとくっきり見えますね。 pic.twitter.com/0zhyRXYvQk — 柴田孔明 (@koumeiShibata) February 27, 2018 A Japanese H-2A rocket launched Tuesday with a clandestine…
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Space station trio gets warm welcome back to Earth in frosty Kazakhstan
Read more →: Space station trio gets warm welcome back to Earth in frosty KazakhstanA Russian Soyuz spacecraft descends through the morning sky on its way to a touchdown in Kazakhstan. (NASA…
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Vodafone and Nokia join PTScientists to put 4G mobile phone network on moon
Read more →: Vodafone and Nokia join PTScientists to put 4G mobile phone network on moonThe PTScientist team’s Alina lander and Audi Quattro rover are on display at the Mobile World Congress in…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket fires into orbit with Paz, Starlink satellites
Read more →: Photos: Falcon 9 rocket fires into orbit with Paz, Starlink satellitesA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Feb. 22 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with the Spanish…
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Atlas 5 launch on track for Thursday, SpaceX mission expected to slip
Read more →: Atlas 5 launch on track for Thursday, SpaceX mission expected to slipEDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT), 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT), 5 p.m. EST (2200…
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Live coverage: Three-man station crew lands in Kazakhstan
Read more →: Live coverage: Three-man station crew lands in KazakhstanLive coverage of the Expedition 54 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there…
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Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch picks up the pace in runway tests of world’s biggest airplane
Read more →: Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch picks up the pace in runway tests of world’s biggest airplaneStratolaunch’s twin-fuselage airplane undergoes taxi tests at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port. Note the size of the…