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Live coverage: Proton blasts off on return-to-flight mission
Read more →: Live coverage: Proton blasts off on return-to-flight missionLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a Proton rocket and the Inmarsat 5 F3 mobile communications…
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Chinese spy payload fired into orbit
Read more →: Chinese spy payload fired into orbitThe Long March 4C rocket and Yaogan 27 satellite lifted off at 0231 GMT Thursday (10:31 p.m. EDT…
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Indian space program buoyed by back-to-back GSLV successes
Read more →: Indian space program buoyed by back-to-back GSLV successesThe GSLV lifted off at 1122 GMT (7:22 a.m. EDT) Thursday from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on…
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Photos: HTV supply ship glistens on approach to ISS
Read more →: Photos: HTV supply ship glistens on approach to ISSPhotos captured by astronauts on the International Space Station show a Japanese cargo freighter, covered with reflective solar…
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Countdown begins for launch of Indian military satellite
Read more →: Countdown begins for launch of Indian military satelliteIndia’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle rolls out to the Second Launch Pad at its launch base on Sriharikota…
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Scientists eager for restart of Pluto photo pipeline
Read more →: Scientists eager for restart of Pluto photo pipelineFour images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph…
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Major Ground Firing Tests of the LM-5 Launch Vehicle Completed
Read more →: Major Ground Firing Tests of the LM-5 Launch Vehicle CompletedAt 16:35 on August 17, the second firing test of the second core stage power system of the…
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Uranus, Neptune in NASA’s sights for new robotic mission
Read more →: Uranus, Neptune in NASA’s sights for new robotic missionNASA’s Voyager 2 mission captured this image of Uranus during its January 1986 flyby, the only encounter with…
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Japanese HTV supply carrier reaches space station
Read more →: Japanese HTV supply carrier reaches space stationJapan’s fifth HTV cargo freighter is seen in the grasp of the space station’s robotic arm Monday. Credit:…
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Photos: Navy satellite joins Atlas booster rocket for launch
Read more →: Photos: Navy satellite joins Atlas booster rocket for launchThis photo gallery shows the U.S. Navy’s fourth Mobile User Objective System communications satellite, already encapsulated in the…
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Ariane rocket’s 225th flight in pictures
Read more →: Ariane rocket’s 225th flight in picturesThe 81st flight of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket delivered two satellites to geostationary orbit Thursday for Eutelsat and…
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Mountain-climbing Mars rover sends back low-angle selfie
Read more →: Mountain-climbing Mars rover sends back low-angle selfieThis low-angle self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover from Aug. 5 shows the vehicle at the site from…