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Japanese scientists abandon plan for asteroid flyby
Read more →: Japanese scientists abandon plan for asteroid flybyArtist’s concept of the Procyon spacecraft. Credit: JAXA An experimental suitcase-sized space probe launched as a secondary payload…
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Air Force weather satellite remains in launch limbo
Read more →: Air Force weather satellite remains in launch limboAn artist’s concept of DMSP. Credit: Air Force CAPE CANAVERAL — The U.S. military wants to launch the…
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Skating rinks on Ceres? Ice could be source of bright spots
Read more →: Skating rinks on Ceres? Ice could be source of bright spotsThis animation shows a sequence of images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on May 4, 2015, from a…
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Curiosity rover sees blue on the red planet
Read more →: Curiosity rover sees blue on the red planetNASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission’s 956th…
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Stricken space freighter re-enters atmosphere
Read more →: Stricken space freighter re-enters atmosphereFile photo of a Russian Progress supply ship. Credit: NASA A Russian Progress cargo craft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere…
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UAE details ambitious plan for Martian weather satellite
Read more →: UAE details ambitious plan for Martian weather satelliteArtist’s concept of the Emirates Mars Mission. Credit: Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center Scientists from the United Arab…
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Photos: Atlas 5 and X-37B mated together for upcoming launch
Read more →: Photos: Atlas 5 and X-37B mated together for upcoming launchCAPE CANAVERAL — The Air Force’s miniature space shuttle and its ride to orbit have been joined together…
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Photos: SpaceX’s passenger spaceship flies on first test run
Read more →: Photos: SpaceX’s passenger spaceship flies on first test runIt didn’t go into space, but SpaceX’s Dragon crew capsule fired off a launch pad at Cape Canaveral…
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Space-based airplane tracking demonstrated by ESA satellite
Read more →: Space-based airplane tracking demonstrated by ESA satelliteAircraft positions picked up by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, using an experimental Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) receiver.…
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Out-of-control Progress cargo craft to fall back to Earth
Read more →: Out-of-control Progress cargo craft to fall back to EarthUpdated at 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT) on May 7. File photo of a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft.…
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SpaceX crew capsule completes dramatic abort test
Read more →: SpaceX crew capsule completes dramatic abort testUpdated at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) with details from Elon Musk The Crew Dragon capsule blasted off…
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Video: Dragon test articles flies pad abort profile
Read more →: Video: Dragon test articles flies pad abort profileA test article of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon flew on an arcing minute-and-a-half demonstration flight over Cape Canaveral on…