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ESA plans for Rosetta’s grand finale on comet 67P
Read more →: ESA plans for Rosetta’s grand finale on comet 67PArtist’s concept of the Rosetta spacecraft with a real image of comet 67P in the background. Credit: ESA/ATG…
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High-flying scientists capture mystery object WT1190F’s fiery breakup on video
Read more →: High-flying scientists capture mystery object WT1190F’s fiery breakup on videoAn image captured from a chartered Gulfstream 450 business jet shows the fiery breakup of the space object…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin targets 2016 for suborbital research flights with drone spaceships
Read more →: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin targets 2016 for suborbital research flights with drone spaceshipsBlue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship rises from its West Texas launch pad in April for a test…
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Yaogan-28 Remote Sensing Satellite Launched in N China
Read more →: Yaogan-28 Remote Sensing Satellite Launched in N ChinaA Long March-4B rocket carrying the Yaogan-28 remote sensing satellite blasts off at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center…
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Tianhui-1C Mapping Satellite Lanched
Read more →: Tianhui-1C Mapping Satellite LanchedA Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Tianhui-1C mapping satellite blasts off from the launch pad at the…
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China and Dutch Strengthening Aerospace Exchanges and Cooperation
Read more →: China and Dutch Strengthening Aerospace Exchanges and CooperationBEIJING, Oct. 26 (China Space News) — Beijing Institute of Space Mechanics and Electricity (BISME) signed a letter…
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Roving chunk of space junk plunging back to Earth
Read more →: Roving chunk of space junk plunging back to EarthWT1190F on Nov. 3. Credit: Bill Ryan at Magdalena Ridge Observatory. A long-lost fragment of space debris is…
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U.S.-Russian talks on Venus mission resume
Read more →: U.S.-Russian talks on Venus mission resumeNASA’s Magellan mission mapped Venus in radar imagery, revealing the planet’s global surface topography for the first time.…
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Rewatch the Ariane 5’s spectacular sunset liftoff
Read more →: Rewatch the Ariane 5’s spectacular sunset liftoffWatch multi-angle video replays of Tuesday’s blastoff of an Ariane 5 rocket from the jungles of South America…
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Mystery object WT1190F comes down over Indian Ocean but fails to make a splash
Read more →: Mystery object WT1190F comes down over Indian Ocean but fails to make a splashAn image taken from a NASA DC-8 airplane shows the re-entry of Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft in 2010. WT1190F’s…
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Stacking starts for Atlas 5 cargo run to space station with Cygnus
Read more →: Stacking starts for Atlas 5 cargo run to space station with CygnusThe mission poster. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — United Launch Alliance today began stacking its first Atlas 5…
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Asteroid miners hail commercial space legislation that sets up property rights in space
Read more →: Asteroid miners hail commercial space legislation that sets up property rights in spaceAn artist’s conception shows an asteroid being mined by swarms of robots. (Credit: Planetary Resources) After months of…