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‘Star Wars’ tech: Latest threat suggests the bad guys have perfected plasma physics
Read more →: ‘Star Wars’ tech: Latest threat suggests the bad guys have perfected plasma physicsA detail from the poster of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” shows Starkiller Base. (Lucasfilm / Disney) Spoiler…
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New Horizons probe sends more amazing pics of Pluto and a tiny moon called Nix
Read more →: New Horizons probe sends more amazing pics of Pluto and a tiny moon called NixThe New Horizons probe got a look at craters containing dark material during its July 14 Pluto flyby. (Credit:…
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Soyuz/Galileo launch timeline
Read more →: Soyuz/Galileo launch timelineFollow the key events of the Soyuz rocket’s ascent into orbit from the Guiana Space Center with two…
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Live coverage: Soyuz launches on 13th flight from French Guiana
Read more →: Live coverage: Soyuz launches on 13th flight from French GuianaLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with two Galileo navigation…
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Soyuz launches two more Galileo satellites
Read more →: Soyuz launches two more Galileo satellitesThe Soyuz rocket carrying the 11th and 12th satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation program lifted off at 1151:56…
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China sends dark matter probe into orbit
Read more →: China sends dark matter probe into orbitChina launched the first in a series of planned space science probes Thursday, putting a satellite into orbit…
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Hubble Space Telescope salutes ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ with cosmic lightsaber
Read more →: Hubble Space Telescope salutes ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ with cosmic lightsaberAn image from the Hubble Space Telescope focuses on jets of hot gas blazing forth from a protostar…
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China launches country’s first dark matter satellite
Read more →: China launches country’s first dark matter satelliteChina sent into space the country’s first Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite on Dec. 17,2015, in a fresh search for smoking-gun signals of the invisible material that scientists say makes up most of the universe’s mass.
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Congress’ omnibus bill gives NASA a Christmas bonus: a bigger $19.3 billion budget
Read more →: Congress’ omnibus bill gives NASA a Christmas bonus: a bigger $19.3 billion budgetAn artist’s conception shows an orbiter at Europa, a mysterious moon of Jupiter. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) The…
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It’s a first: Hubble scientists successfully predict supernova’s ‘instant replay’
Read more →: It’s a first: Hubble scientists successfully predict supernova’s ‘instant replay’The red circles on this image from the Hubble Space Telescope indicate the three spots where flashes from…
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Q&A with Stéphane Israël, chairman and CEO of Arianespace
Read more →: Q&A with Stéphane Israël, chairman and CEO of ArianespaceBecome a member to access Spaceflight Now’s bonus content, including more Q&As like this one with space industry…
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PSLV completes commercial launch with six Singaporean satellites
Read more →: PSLV completes commercial launch with six Singaporean satellitesSix spacecraft for Singapore lifted off Wednesday aboard an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. Clustered atop the the…