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Turkmenistan’s first satellite braced for liftoff
Read more →: Turkmenistan’s first satellite braced for liftoffSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket with Turkmenistan’s first satellite rolls out to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Sunday.…
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New details emerge about electric propulsion experiment aboard X-37B
Read more →: New details emerge about electric propulsion experiment aboard X-37BCredit: Air Force CAPE CANAVERAL — All systems are now “go” for launch of the Air Force’s X-37B…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches its fifth Falcon 9 flight of the year
Read more →: Live coverage: SpaceX launches its fifth Falcon 9 flight of the yearLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with the TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat communications satellites. Text…
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Ariane 5 sends Thor 7 and Sicral 2 satellites into orbit
Read more →: Ariane 5 sends Thor 7 and Sicral 2 satellites into orbitThe Ariane 5 rocket blasts off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 2000 GMT (4 p.m. EDT; 5 p.m.…
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Commercial Ariane 5 flight rescheduled for Sunday
Read more →: Commercial Ariane 5 flight rescheduled for SundayThe 179-foot-tall Ariane 5 rocket rolled to the launch pad Thursday, but had to return to the Guiana…
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Clouds in the forecast for Monday’s Falcon 9 launch
Read more →: Clouds in the forecast for Monday’s Falcon 9 launchSpaceX’s mission patch for the Falcon 9 launch with TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat. Credit: SpaceX Forecasters will be watching clouds and…
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High-flying tune-ups gave us the Hubble generation
Read more →: High-flying tune-ups gave us the Hubble generationSTORY WRITTEN FOR ASTRONOMY NOW & USED WITH PERMISSION The Hubble Space Telescope in the payload bay of space shuttle…
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Live coverage: Two satellites lift off aboard Ariane 5
Read more →: Live coverage: Two satellites lift off aboard Ariane 5Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Thor 7 and Sicral…
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Fourth X-37B flight a month away from launching
Read more →: Fourth X-37B flight a month away from launchingFile photo. Credit: Air Force CAPE CANAVERAL — The U.S. Air Force on Friday made its first public…
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Astronomers hopeful Hubble will make it to 30th anniversary
Read more →: Astronomers hopeful Hubble will make it to 30th anniversarySTORY WRITTEN FOR ASTRONOMY NOW & USED WITH PERMISSION The Hubble Space Telescope after deployment from space shuttle Columbia during…
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Fixing Hubble’s blurry vision
Read more →: Fixing Hubble’s blurry visionSTORY WRITTEN FOR ASTRONOMY NOW & USED WITH PERMISSION Hubble’s view of the M100 galactic nucleus before (left) and after…
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Ariane 5 in position for dual-satellite launch
Read more →: Ariane 5 in position for dual-satellite launchRolling out for its first liftoff of the year Friday, an Ariane 5 rocket journeyed out of a…