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Next Atlas 5 launch delayed by battery failure
Read more →: Next Atlas 5 launch delayed by battery failureEDITOR’S NOTE: Updated June 28 with new target launch date of July 17. The Atlas 5’s payload fairing, containing…
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Is there life on Mars, or on other worlds beyond Earth? The answer may be squishy
Read more →: Is there life on Mars, or on other worlds beyond Earth? The answer may be squishyNASA’s Curiosity rover took this selfie in June 2018 by capturing a series of pictures with a camera…
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US Naval Research Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute Partner on NASA Mission
Read more →: US Naval Research Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute Partner on NASA MissionU.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers partnered with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to shine a light on the impact…
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Ball Aerospace’s Satellite for NASA GPIM Mission Arrives in Florida
Read more →: Ball Aerospace’s Satellite for NASA GPIM Mission Arrives in FloridaA Ball Aerospace satellite used for NASA‘s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) is ready for launch, scheduled for…
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Lockheed Martin Volunteers Satellites to be Rated for Sustainability
Read more →: Lockheed Martin Volunteers Satellites to be Rated for SustainabilityLockheed Martin is playing guinea pig for a new “space sustainability” rating scheme designed to show how…
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Astrobiology takes the spotlight: Saturn’s moon Enceladus may offer a ‘free lunch’
Read more →: Astrobiology takes the spotlight: Saturn’s moon Enceladus may offer a ‘free lunch’This composite image shows how plumes of water emanate from fissures in the surface ice of Enceladus, one…
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NASA Seeks Wider Use of GPS: Not From Space, but in Space
Read more →: NASA Seeks Wider Use of GPS: Not From Space, but in SpaceNASA, one of the U.S. government agencies that manages GPS, wants to expand the navigation system’s application in…
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European space mission to get close-up view of new comet
Read more →: European space mission to get close-up view of new cometThis view of Comet C/2012 S1, or ISON, was captured in November 2013 by the TRAPPIST–South telescope at…
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Russia postpones launch of X-ray astronomy mission
Read more →: Russia postpones launch of X-ray astronomy missionThe Proton rocket with the Spektr-RG X-ray astronomy mission will return to an assembly building at the Baikonur…
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Arianespace Launches EUTELSAT 7C and T-16 Satellites
Read more →: Arianespace Launches EUTELSAT 7C and T-16 SatellitesArianespace successfully launched an Ariane 5 rocket on June 20 at 6:43 p.m. (local time) from the Guiana…
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ESA Awards Siemens, Sonaca Additive Manufacturing Contract
Read more →: ESA Awards Siemens, Sonaca Additive Manufacturing ContractThe European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Siemens Digital Industries Software to develop aerospace design applications for metal…
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Two commercial broadcast satellites launched on Ariane 5 rocket
Read more →: Two commercial broadcast satellites launched on Ariane 5 rocketAn Ariane 5 rocket takes off Thursday night with AT&T’s T-16 and the Eutelsat 7C commercial communications satellites.…