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In an eerie scene, Chinese villagers visit rocket crash site
Read more →: In an eerie scene, Chinese villagers visit rocket crash sitePhoto credit: China News Service The expended first stage of a Long March rocket tumbled into a forested…
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Rain and clouds in the forecast for Tuesday’s SpaceX launch
Read more →: Rain and clouds in the forecast for Tuesday’s SpaceX launchFile photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad before a previous mission.…
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Preserving the future: A rare glimpse inside the EMP Museum vault
Read more →: Preserving the future: A rare glimpse inside the EMP Museum vaultStorage shelves inside the EMP Museum vault I have seen the future. And it looks a bit ratty.…
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China sends new weather satellite into orbit
Read more →: China sends new weather satellite into orbitA Long March 3A rocket launched at 0102 GMT Wednesday (8:02 p.m. EST Tuesday) with the Fengyun 2G…
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China Launches Meteorological Satellite Fengyun-II 08
Read more →: China Launches Meteorological Satellite Fengyun-II 08XICHANG, Sichuan, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — China successfully launched Fengyun-II 08, its meteorological satellite, at 9:02 a.m. on…
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2014’s top stories in spaceflight
Read more →: 2014’s top stories in spaceflightThe year ended with a deluge of big news, reminding us of the risks of spaceflight and the…
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Dawn begins final approach to dwarf planet Ceres
Read more →: Dawn begins final approach to dwarf planet CeresArtist’s concept of the Dawn spacecraft firing its ion propulsion system on approach to Ceres. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s…
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HD remote sensing images cover China’s landmass
Read more →: HD remote sensing images cover China’s landmassChina can now view the entire country’s land mass using HD satellite images, it was announced at a…
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FY-2C satellite successfully deorbited
Read more →: FY-2C satellite successfully deorbitedIt is reported that from December 10 to 13, FY-2C satellite has been successfully deorbited. Y-2C was the first…
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SpaceX selected for launch of Qatari satellite
Read more →: SpaceX selected for launch of Qatari satelliteFile photo of a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX A communications satellite owned by the…
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O3b Networks plans satellite fleet expansion
Read more →: O3b Networks plans satellite fleet expansionThe first-generation O3b satellites launched four at a time aboard a Europeanized version of Russia’s Soyuz rocket. Credit:…
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Photos: Proton lifts off with TV broadcasting satellite
Read more →: Photos: Proton lifts off with TV broadcasting satelliteFiring into space from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a Russian Proton rocket guided a European television…