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Minotaur rocket launch for NRO expected at Wallops by end of 2018
Read more →: Minotaur rocket launch for NRO expected at Wallops by end of 2018File photo of a Minotaur 1 launch from Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Wallops Flight Facility A classified National…
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Video: Narrated preview of Jan. 13 spacewalk
Read more →: Video: Narrated preview of Jan. 13 spacewalkThis is a narrated animation previewing the steps and activities to be performed by the International Space Station…
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Atlas 5 and Delta 4 achieve milestones in parallel on the same morning
Read more →: Atlas 5 and Delta 4 achieve milestones in parallel on the same morningThe SBIRS GEO Flight 3 satellite will be launched next week. Credit: Lockheed Martin CAPE CANAVERAL — Critical…
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Commercial Earth-observing craft recover from off-target launch
Read more →: Commercial Earth-observing craft recover from off-target launchThe SuperView 1 satellites pictured before their launch. Credit: Beijing Space View Two Chinese satellites launched into the…
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Multi-national contribution to U.S. military network delivered for launch
Read more →: Multi-national contribution to U.S. military network delivered for launchThe next satellite for the U.S. military’s communications network, this one purchased by five international allies, has arrived…
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Two asteroid missions get nod from NASA
Read more →: Two asteroid missions get nod from NASAArtist’s concepts of the Lucy and Psyche missions. Credit: SWRI and SSL/Peter Rubin NASA has selected two robotic…
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Launch of experimental Japanese rocket scrubbed
Read more →: Launch of experimental Japanese rocket scrubbedThe SS-520-4 launcher is in position for liftoff in this photo from the Uchinoura Space Center taken Monday.…
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Planet Earth observed through telescope orbiting Mars
Read more →: Planet Earth observed through telescope orbiting MarsHere is a view of Earth and its moon, as seen from Mars. It combines two images acquired…
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NASA shows off robots, a VR trip to Mars, and more at CES
Read more →: NASA shows off robots, a VR trip to Mars, and more at CESLAS VEGAS — NASA doesn’t make consumer electronics per say, but it does enough geeky stuff that it…
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Very Large Telescope joins Breakthrough search for Alpha Centauri’s planets
Read more →: Very Large Telescope joins Breakthrough search for Alpha Centauri’s planetsThe ESO’s Very Large Telescope looms in the foreground of this image, and a star map has been…
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Kuaizhou rocket lifts off on first commercial mission
Read more →: Kuaizhou rocket lifts off on first commercial missionThe Kuaizhou 1A rocket lifted off at 0411 GMT Monday (11:11 p.m. EST Sunday) from the Jiuquan space…
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Next SpaceX launch slipped to avoid stormy weather, range conflict
Read more →: Next SpaceX launch slipped to avoid stormy weather, range conflictThe mission patch for the first Falcon 9 launch for the Iridium Next satellite fleet shows the 10…