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What’s new from New Horizons: Clean water ice on Pluto’s far-out moon, Hydra
Read more →: What’s new from New Horizons: Clean water ice on Pluto’s far-out moon, HydraAn image captured during the New Horizons flyby in July 2015 shows Hydra, Pluto’s outermost moon. (Credit: NASA…
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Photos: Falcon 9 streaks into space, lands on drone ship
Read more →: Photos: Falcon 9 streaks into space, lands on drone shipSpaceX achieved a double success Friday with the launch of a Japanese communications satellite from Cape Canaveral, followed…
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Satellites reveal just how bad the wildfires are in Alberta’s oil-sand country
Read more →: Satellites reveal just how bad the wildfires are in Alberta’s oil-sand countryA color-coded image from the Landsat 8 satellite’s Operational Land Imager shows fire and smoke in the vicinity…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 roars into orbit with Japanese satellite
Read more →: Live coverage: Falcon 9 roars into orbit with Japanese satelliteLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the…
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Photos: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on the pad at Cape Canaveral
Read more →: Photos: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on the pad at Cape CanaveralCrowned with a Japanese telecommunications satellite, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sits atop its Cape Canaveral launch pad hours…
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Woohoo! SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes nighttime landing at sea after launching JCSAT-14 satellite
Read more →: Woohoo! SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes nighttime landing at sea after launching JCSAT-14 satelliteHours after its nighttime landing, a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage stands tall on an autonomous spaceport drone…
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Falcon 9 flight timeline with the JCSAT 14 satellite
Read more →: Falcon 9 flight timeline with the JCSAT 14 satelliteSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral early Friday, heading due east over the…
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Stormy weather in Florida delays Falcon 9 launch
Read more →: Stormy weather in Florida delays Falcon 9 launchUpdated with weather forecast. The Falcon 9 rocket slated to launch Japan’s JCSAT 14 communications satellite inside SpaceX’s…
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Five contemporary Chinese science and engineering projects
Read more →: Five contemporary Chinese science and engineering projectsWorld’s largest radio telescope China is constructing the world’s largest radio telescope, the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or…
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New lineup spelled out for upcoming Atlas 5 rocket launches from the Cape
Read more →: New lineup spelled out for upcoming Atlas 5 rocket launches from the CapeThe most recent Atlas 5 arcs to orbit over the next Delta 4-Heavy rocket. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL…
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Russian authorities retrieve Soyuz booster wreckage in Siberia
Read more →: Russian authorities retrieve Soyuz booster wreckage in SiberiaOne of the four Soyuz first stage boosters from last week’s first launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Credit:…
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SpaceX undecided on payload for first Falcon Heavy flight
Read more →: SpaceX undecided on payload for first Falcon Heavy flightArtist’s concept of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket. Credit: SpaceX As SpaceX engineers put together the first model of…