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Russian military satellites orbited by stripped-down Soyuz rocket
Read more →: Russian military satellites orbited by stripped-down Soyuz rocketA Russian satellite reportedly designed to demonstrate sensors to track enemy submarines and a passive secondary spacecraft to…
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Atlas 5 rocket sends Cygnus in hot pursuit of space station
Read more →: Atlas 5 rocket sends Cygnus in hot pursuit of space stationCAPE CANAVERAL — Bound for an orbital rendezvous with the International Space Station on Wednesday, a commercial Cygnus…
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It’s a first! Atlas 5 rocket sends Cygnus cargo ship (with HoloLens) to space station
Read more →: It’s a first! Atlas 5 rocket sends Cygnus cargo ship (with HoloLens) to space stationA United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket rises from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…
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Japanese probe fires rockets to steer into orbit at Venus
Read more →: Japanese probe fires rockets to steer into orbit at VenusUpdated at 0315 GMT (10:15 p.m. EST) Artist’s concept of the Akatsuki spacecraft. Five years after missing a…
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Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 on space station cargo mission
Read more →: Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 on space station cargo missionA replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Orbital ATK’s commercial Cygnus cargo freighter…
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NASA’s New Horizons probe sends its closest close-up of Pluto
Read more →: NASA’s New Horizons probe sends its closest close-up of PlutoA heart-shaped patch of nitrogen-rich ice (outlined in red) lies next to a mountain range on Pluto, as…
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See the highest-resolution snapshots from July’s Pluto flyby
Read more →: See the highest-resolution snapshots from July’s Pluto flybyIn this highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto’s water-ice crust appear jammed together…
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Take a last look at the Vega rocket’s middle-of-the-night liftoff
Read more →: Take a last look at the Vega rocket’s middle-of-the-night liftoffEurope’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, carrying high-tech thrusters and ultra-sensitive motion sensors to be used in a future gravitational…
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Space race! British astronaut Tim Peake gets set to run marathon on space station
Read more →: Space race! British astronaut Tim Peake gets set to run marathon on space stationBritish astronaut Tim Peake, shown here at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany, says he’ll run a…
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Testing of New Rocket Underway
Read more →: Testing of New Rocket UnderwayBEIJING, Dec. 1 (China Space News) — China is conducting tests on its largest and most powerful rocket,…
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Photos: Nightfall at Cape Canaveral on eve of Atlas launch to space station
Read more →: Photos: Nightfall at Cape Canaveral on eve of Atlas launch to space stationThese photos were taken on Wednesday, Dec. 2, approximately 24 hours before the scheduled liftoff of the United…
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Virgin Galactic gets a 747 jet to serve as flying launch pad for its LauncherOne rocket
Read more →: Virgin Galactic gets a 747 jet to serve as flying launch pad for its LauncherOne rocketAn artist’s conception shows a Virgin Galactic 747 jet carrying a LauncherOne rocket. (Credit: Virgin Galactic) Virgin Galactic…