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Chinese data relay satellite nears post over far side of the moon
Read more →: Chinese data relay satellite nears post over far side of the moonArtist’s illustration of the Queqiao spacecraft. Credit: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. A Chinese communications satellite carrying…
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Live coverage: Soyuz capsule brings home three-man crew
Read more →: Live coverage: Soyuz capsule brings home three-man crewLive coverage of the Expedition 55 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there…
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Three Station crewmembers return to Earth on Soyuz MS-07
Read more →: Three Station crewmembers return to Earth on Soyuz MS-07After 168 days in orbit, three crewmembers of the International Space Station returned to Earth on Sunday. Soyuz…
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Space station crew closes out 168-day mission
Read more →: Space station crew closes out 168-day missionSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft touches down in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls…
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Falcon 9 conducts SES-12 night launch from Cape Canaveral
Read more →: Falcon 9 conducts SES-12 night launch from Cape CanaveralSpaceX launched their sixth mission for telecommunications giants SES. The launch, using a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket to…
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Earth-observers delivered to space by Long March 2D rocket
Read more →: Earth-observers delivered to space by Long March 2D rocketVideo credit: CGTN A Chinese environmental research craft and an experimental Earth-imaging nanosatellite successfully launched Saturday aboard a…
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One trio comes home from the space station just as another gets set to launch
Read more →: One trio comes home from the space station just as another gets set to launchA Russian Soyuz spacecraft fires its retro rockets as it touches down in Kazakhstan, marking the return of…
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One station crew heads home, another preps for launch
Read more →: One station crew heads home, another preps for launchJapanese astronaut Norishige Kanai (upper left), Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov (bottom), and NASA flight engineer Scott Tingle (right)…
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Long March 2D lofts Gaofen-6
Read more →: Long March 2D lofts Gaofen-6China launched a new remote sensing satellite called Gaofen-6 on Saturday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Launch took…
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Orbital ATK looks ahead to CRS2 Cygnus flights, Antares on the commercial market
Read more →: Orbital ATK looks ahead to CRS2 Cygnus flights, Antares on the commercial marketAs Orbital ATK’s OA-9E Cygnus mission continues its to-date flawless mission at the ISS, the company is looking…
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NASA Ups JPSS Contract with Raytheon by $59 Million
Read more →: NASA Ups JPSS Contract with Raytheon by $59 MillionNASA has definitized additional requirements under the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System contract with Raytheon…
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Startup Space Spotlight: Voyager SatBuilder Brings Satellite Engineering to the Cloud
Read more →: Startup Space Spotlight: Voyager SatBuilder Brings Satellite Engineering to the CloudEmerging aerospace company Voyager Space Technologies hopes to pioneer a new approach to automated spacecraft design that lowers…