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SpaceX readies rocket for tests at historic pad 39A
Read more →: SpaceX readies rocket for tests at historic pad 39AAn aerial view of launch pad 39A from late 2015. Credit: NASA SpaceX engineers are preparing to mount…
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Museum of Flight gets intact moon rocket engine to go with beat-up Apollo artifacts
Read more →: Museum of Flight gets intact moon rocket engine to go with beat-up Apollo artifactsAn Apollo-era F-1 rocket engine arrives on a flatbed truck. (Museum of Flight Photo) When historic rocket engine…
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Blue lightning caught on video from space
Read more →: Blue lightning caught on video from spaceAn image captured from the International Space Station shows an electrical discharge known as a blue jet shooting…
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China’s Hi-res SAR Imaging Satellite Put into Use
Read more →: China’s Hi-res SAR Imaging Satellite Put into UseBEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) — China’s first high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite has passed all its in-orbit…
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China to test near-space flight of solar drone
Read more →: China to test near-space flight of solar droneBEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) — China will test how its largest solar drone performs near-space flight this year,…
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Tornado strikes NASA’s Michoud plant in New Orleans
Read more →: Tornado strikes NASA’s Michoud plant in New OrleansEmployees and flight hardware for NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spaceship were mostly spared after a strong…
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NASA gives its nod to NanoRacks for space station’s first commercial portal
Read more →: NASA gives its nod to NanoRacks for space station’s first commercial portalIn this artist’s conception, NanoRacks’ airlock module is the knobby-looking hardware attached to a port on the International…
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Japanese cargo ship ends mission after space debris experiment flounders
Read more →: Japanese cargo ship ends mission after space debris experiment floundersArtist’s concept of how the tether for Japan’s KITE experiment would have appeared when deployed from the HTV…
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Iridium to share Falcon 9 launch with NASA-German gravity satellites
Read more →: Iridium to share Falcon 9 launch with NASA-German gravity satellitesThe first 10 Iridium Next satellites launched Jan. 14 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force…
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NASA okays commercial airlock for space station
Read more →: NASA okays commercial airlock for space stationArtist’s concept of the NanoRacks airlock attached to the space station’s Tranquility module. Credit: NanoRacks A commercial airlock…
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Jupiter snapshots show lots of spots
Read more →: Jupiter snapshots show lots of spotsA photo of Jupiter’s south polar region, captured by the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno orbiter on Feb.…
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Planet acquires rival satellite company from Google
Read more →: Planet acquires rival satellite company from GoogleOne of Terra Bella’s SkySat satellites captured this image of downtown San Francisco on Dec. 27. Credit: Planet/Terra…