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Skies are blue and water ice is red on Pluto
Read more →: Skies are blue and water ice is red on PlutoPluto’s haze layer shows its blue color in this picture taken by the New Horizons Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging…
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Photos: California’s predawn liftoff of Atlas 5 rocket
Read more →: Photos: California’s predawn liftoff of Atlas 5 rocketMaking its second launch in just six days, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight blasted off…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket soars from West Coast
Read more →: Photos: Atlas 5 rocket soars from West CoastA collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight carrying the NROL-55 cargo…
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China Launches 20th Beidou Navigation Satellite
Read more →: China Launches 20th Beidou Navigation SatelliteXICHANG, Sichuan Province, Sept. 30 (China Space News) — China launched a new-generation satellite into orbit that will…
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Cygnus supply ship takes weather satellite’s slot in Atlas manifest
Read more →: Cygnus supply ship takes weather satellite’s slot in Atlas manifestUpdating Cygnus processing location. The service module for Orbital ATK’s next Cygnus cargo craft will be shipped to…
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Quartet of Earth imaging satellites launched from China
Read more →: Quartet of Earth imaging satellites launched from ChinaThe Long March 2D rocket with four Jilin 1 satellites lifted off at 0413 GMT (12:13 a.m. EDT;…
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Intel-gathering spacecraft launch on Atlas 5 scheduled for Thursday
Read more →: Intel-gathering spacecraft launch on Atlas 5 scheduled for ThursdayMission poster. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Poised for its one and only satellite launch of the year,…
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Workers complete $15 million in repairs to Antares launch pad
Read more →: Workers complete $15 million in repairs to Antares launch padLaunch pad 0A has been repaired after sustaining $15.2 million in damage during the Oct. 28, 2014, failure…
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NASA might pick two Discovery missions, but at a price
Read more →: NASA might pick two Discovery missions, but at a priceArtist’s concept of the VERITAS spacecraft at Venus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A senior NASA official said Monday the agency…
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Target of Japanese space mission named for dragon’s palace
Read more →: Target of Japanese space mission named for dragon’s palaceArtist’s concept of the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft at asteroid Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/Akihiro Ikeshita The Japanese space agency has…
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Photos: NROL-55 payload joins Atlas booster rocket for launch
Read more →: Photos: NROL-55 payload joins Atlas booster rocket for launchThis photo gallery shows the classified National Reconnaissance Office payload, already encapsulated in the 14-foot-diameter nose cone, being…
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Hurricane Joaquin eyed from space station
Read more →: Hurricane Joaquin eyed from space stationCredit: NASA Astronauts on the International Space Station spied powerful Hurricane Joaquin spinning in the Bahamas in a…