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SpaceX failure probe complete; flights to resume Sunday from California
Read more →: SpaceX failure probe complete; flights to resume Sunday from CaliforniaSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo. Credit: NASA After an exhaustive investigation, SpaceX engineers have…
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SpaceX traces Falcon 9 blast to failed helium tank; return to flight set for Jan. 8
Read more →: SpaceX traces Falcon 9 blast to failed helium tank; return to flight set for Jan. 8SpaceX’s return to flight is due to take place Jan. 8 at its launch facility at Vandenberg Air…
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Space station battery work starts New Year’s Eve
Read more →: Space station battery work starts New Year’s EveSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Working over the New Year holiday weekend, robot arm operators at…
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World View stratospheric flight company settles into Spaceport Tucson, just in time
Read more →: World View stratospheric flight company settles into Spaceport Tucson, just in timeThe Breitling Jet Team flies over Spaceport Tucson in October. (World View Photo) Arizona-based World View Enterprises is settling…
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Mannequin Challenge jumps the shark in zero-G, courtesy of space station crew
Read more →: Mannequin Challenge jumps the shark in zero-G, courtesy of space station crewRussian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky stays immobile as he floats in a Superman pose for an out-of-this-world Mannequin Challenge.…
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‘Impossible’ EmDrive thruster attracts rising attention, even from skeptics
Read more →: ‘Impossible’ EmDrive thruster attracts rising attention, even from skepticsThe EmDrive apparatus was set up inside a vacuum chamber for testing. (White et al. via AIAA) For…
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Iridium satellites closed up for launch on Falcon 9 rocket
Read more →: Iridium satellites closed up for launch on Falcon 9 rocketThe first 10 Iridium Next satellites were encapsulated inside the payload fairing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket earlier…
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First Carbon Dioxide Monitoing Satellite Successfully Launched
Read more →: First Carbon Dioxide Monitoing Satellite Successfully LaunchedThe Long March-2D rocket carrying a carbon dioxide monitoring satellite blasts off from the launch pad at the…
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China Launches Satellite to Monitor Global Carbon Emissions
Read more →: China Launches Satellite to Monitor Global Carbon EmissionsJIUQUAN, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) — China launched a carbon dioxide monitoing satellite via a Long March-2D rocket from…
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Internal debris may be causing problem with Mars rover’s drill
Read more →: Internal debris may be causing problem with Mars rover’s drillFile photo of Curiosity’s drill bit from Feb. 24, 2015. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Engineers suspect a piece of foreign…
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Chinese Earth observation satellites launched into lower-than-planned orbit
Read more →: Chinese Earth observation satellites launched into lower-than-planned orbitTwo commercial Earth-imaging satellites launched by a Chinese Long March 2D booster Wednesday are flying in lower-than-planned orbits…
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Orbital ATK has no plans to phase out seldom-used Pegasus rocket
Read more →: Orbital ATK has no plans to phase out seldom-used Pegasus rocketIn this view from an F/A-18 chase plane, Orbital ATK’s Pegasus XL rocket fires its first stage seconds…