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Attention social media users: See an Atlas 5 launch up close!
Read more →: Attention social media users: See an Atlas 5 launch up close!The previous ULA Social visited the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now CAPE…
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Rocket engine fires up in latest test for behemoth booster
Read more →: Rocket engine fires up in latest test for behemoth boosterNASA test-fired an RS-25 development engine Thursday at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now…
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Second launch deal inked between Atlas 5 rocket and Cygnus freighter
Read more →: Second launch deal inked between Atlas 5 rocket and Cygnus freighterFile photo of Atlas 5 launch. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Orbital ATK has ordered another Atlas 5…
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Rosetta gets ringside seat to smelly comet outburst
Read more →: Rosetta gets ringside seat to smelly comet outburstA short-lived outburst from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on July 29. Each image…
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Scientists plan for New Horizons probe’s second act
Read more →: Scientists plan for New Horizons probe’s second actArtist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft flying by a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: Alex Parker Scientists are…
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Astronauts munch on space-grown lettuce
Read more →: Astronauts munch on space-grown lettuceSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Amid a Russian spacewalk to carry out routine maintenance and inspections…
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New engines arrive at Antares rocket launch site
Read more →: New engines arrive at Antares rocket launch siteFile photo of an Antares rocket on its launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: Orbital ATK The…
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Space station crew chows down on fresh Outredgeous lettuce … and so can you
Read more →: Space station crew chows down on fresh Outredgeous lettuce … and so can youJapan’s Kimiya Yui (at left) joins NASA’s Kjell Lindgren and Scott Kelly in sampling space-grown Outredgeous red romaine…
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Reserve a launch for your satellite online? Rocket Lab can make it so
Read more →: Reserve a launch for your satellite online? Rocket Lab can make it soRocket Lab CEO Peter Beck aims to have the company’s Electron rocket blasting off from a New Zealand…
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Swiss company to move Atlas 5 work to Alabama
Read more →: Swiss company to move Atlas 5 work to AlabamaFile photo of payload fairings inside Ruag Space’s facility in Emmen, Switzerland. Credit: Ruag Space Ruag Space, the…
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Top 5 places for Seattle skywatchers to see the Perseid meteor shower
Read more →: Top 5 places for Seattle skywatchers to see the Perseid meteor showerPhotographer Jeff Berkes captured this picture of a Perseid meteor flashing over Mount Rainier’s right flank in 2013…
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NASA troubleshoots radar outage on new SMAP satellite
Read more →: NASA troubleshoots radar outage on new SMAP satelliteArtist’s concept of the Soil Moisture Active Passive spacecraft in orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Engineers have so far been…