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Photos: O3b satellites prepared for Soyuz launch
Read more →: Photos: O3b satellites prepared for Soyuz launchFour satellites designed to broadcast high-speed Internet signals to the developing world are mounted on top of a…
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Despite budget boost, Space Launch System will not fly before 2018
Read more →: Despite budget boost, Space Launch System will not fly before 2018Artist’s concept of the Space Launch System lifting off from launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in…
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ULA year in review
Read more →: ULA year in reviewCAPE CANAVERAL — A record number of Atlas 5 launches, the return of Delta 2 and a Delta…
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Photos: Soyuz booster rolls out to French Guiana launch pad
Read more →: Photos: Soyuz booster rolls out to French Guiana launch padRussian rocket technicians working in the French Guiana jungle transported a three-stage Soyuz booster to its launch pad…
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Mars rover detects methane spike, organic molecules
Read more →: Mars rover detects methane spike, organic moleculesSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of the Curiosity rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Carefully…
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Photos: SpaceX’s autonomous spaceport drone ship
Read more →: Photos: SpaceX’s autonomous spaceport drone shipAn ocean-going cargo barge modified to serve as a landing pad for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster is set…
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NASA, JAXA reach asteroid sample-sharing agreement
Read more →: NASA, JAXA reach asteroid sample-sharing agreementArtist’s concept of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab…
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Video: Orion flight highlights
Read more →: Video: Orion flight highlightsOrion launch highlights film from NASA TV.
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Photos: Proton rocket blasts off with Yamal 401 satellite
Read more →: Photos: Proton rocket blasts off with Yamal 401 satelliteAn International Launch Services Proton rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday with the Yamal 401…
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Milestone Proton launch opens queue of grounded commercial missions
Read more →: Milestone Proton launch opens queue of grounded commercial missionsThe Proton rocket launched at 0016 GMT Monday (7:16 p.m. EST Sunday) with the Yamal 401 communications satellite.…
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NASA gets budget hike in spending bill passed by Congress
Read more →: NASA gets budget hike in spending bill passed by CongressArtist’s concept of SpaceX’s Dragon V2 crew capsule, one of two commercial vehicles contracted by NASA to ferry…
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Photos: Atlas launch seen from pad cameras
Read more →: Photos: Atlas launch seen from pad camerasThe United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket unleashes two million pounds of thrust at 7:19 p.m. to blast…