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Bigelow’s station habitat to be expanded Thursday
Read more →: Bigelow’s station habitat to be expanded ThursdayArtist’s concept of an astronaut entering BEAM. Credit: NASA Space station flight engineer Jeff Williams will send commands…
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Timeline for Falcon 9’s launch of the Thaicom 8 satellite
Read more →: Timeline for Falcon 9’s launch of the Thaicom 8 satelliteThe Falcon 9 rocket’s fifth flight of the year will take off from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, heaving…
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NASA fires back at Nathan Myhrvold in spat over asteroid mission’s data
Read more →: NASA fires back at Nathan Myhrvold in spat over asteroid mission’s dataAn artist’s conception shows NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, making observations. WISE observations of near-Earth objects…
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China to Launch 30 Beidou Navigation Satellites in Next 5 Years
Read more →: China to Launch 30 Beidou Navigation Satellites in Next 5 YearsBEIJING, May 25 (China Space News) — China plans to launch 30 Beidou navigation satellites during the 13th…
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Photos: Soyuz dashes away from French Guiana launch pad
Read more →: Photos: Soyuz dashes away from French Guiana launch padA Russian Soyuz rocket topped with two European Galileo navigation satellites soared into orbit before dawn Tuesday, vaulting…
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Photos and video: Payload mated to Delta 4-Heavy rocket for upcoming launch
Read more →: Photos and video: Payload mated to Delta 4-Heavy rocket for upcoming launchCAPE CANAVERAL — Shielded from view within the protective rocket nose cone, a covert surveillance satellite has been…
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SpaceX pencils in July for next Falcon 9 landing at Cape Canaveral
Read more →: SpaceX pencils in July for next Falcon 9 landing at Cape CanaveralA first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket returned to its first landing at Cape Canaveral Air Force…
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On this date…Second American in orbit
Read more →: On this date…Second American in orbitWATCH: Scott Carpenter launched atop an Atlas rocket to become the second American to orbit the Earth today…
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NASA uses Microsoft’s HoloLens and ProtoSpace to build its next Mars rover in augmented reality
Read more →: NASA uses Microsoft’s HoloLens and ProtoSpace to build its next Mars rover in augmented realityEngineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory check the design of a rover assembly using Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality system.…
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Video: Asteroid sampler craft delivered to launch site
Read more →: Video: Asteroid sampler craft delivered to launch siteNASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft that will grab a piece of Asteroid Bennu and return it to Earth, shipped…
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Soyuz launch adds two more satellites to Galileo navigation fleet
Read more →: Soyuz launch adds two more satellites to Galileo navigation fleetA Soyuz rocket blasted off at 0848 GMT (4:48 a.m. EDT; 5:48 a.m. French Guiana time) Tuesday from…
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India flies winged space plane on experimental suborbital launch
Read more →: India flies winged space plane on experimental suborbital launchIndia’s prototype reusable space plane blasted off at 7 a.m. local time Monday. Credit: ISRO A prototype for…