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Ariane 5 rocket hoists record commercial payload into orbit
Read more →: Ariane 5 rocket hoists record commercial payload into orbitAn Ariane 5 rocket took off at 2138 GMT (5:38 p.m. EDT; 6:38 p.m. French Guiana time) Saturday…
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Blue Origin conducts fourth consecutive test flight of New Shepard
Read more →: Blue Origin conducts fourth consecutive test flight of New ShepardBlue Origin has conducted the fourth test of its New Shepard reusable rocket and Crew Capsule on Sunday…
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Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch lifts veil on world’s biggest plane — a giant bet on a new way to space
Read more →: Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch lifts veil on world’s biggest plane — a giant bet on a new way to spaceThis view of Stratolaunch Systems’ hangar at Mojave Air and Space Port in California shows the massive airplane’s…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin live-streams its spaceship’s risky test flight
Read more →: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin live-streams its spaceship’s risky test flightBlue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship rises from its launch pad. (Credit: Blue Origin) Something went wrong during today’s test flight…
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Blue Origin flies reusable suborbital rocket for fourth time
Read more →: Blue Origin flies reusable suborbital rocket for fourth timeUpdated at 11:15 a.m. EDT (1515 GMT) Sunday after successful flight. Blue Origin’s suborbital space transport system made…
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Ariane 5 launches Echostar 18 and BRIsat
Read more →: Ariane 5 launches Echostar 18 and BRIsatAriane 5 has returned to launch action for the third time this year with the lofting of the…
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What a view! Space station trio sails home through picture-perfect clouds
Read more →: What a view! Space station trio sails home through picture-perfect cloudsA Russian Soyuz craft descends through the clouds toward its landing in Kazakhstan, bringing a U.S.-Russian-British crew back…
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Soyuz spacecraft brings home three-man station crew
Read more →: Soyuz spacecraft brings home three-man station crewSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and a…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 lifts off with two U.S.-built satellites
Read more →: Live coverage: Ariane 5 lifts off with two U.S.-built satellitesLive coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the EchoStar 18 and BRIsat…
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Kymeta Plans 2017 Release of mTenna Product Line
Read more →: Kymeta Plans 2017 Release of mTenna Product LineKymeta’s alpha prototype mTenna. Photo: Kymeta [Via Satellite 06-17-2016] Kymeta plans to release the first commercial units of…
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Mission events timeline for Ariane 5’s third flight of the year
Read more →: Mission events timeline for Ariane 5’s third flight of the yearA European Ariane 5 rocket will propel two communications satellites from a standstill to a speed of nearly…
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ULA Identifies Abnormal Propellant Mixture as Cause of OA-6 Atlas 5 Anomaly
Read more →: ULA Identifies Abnormal Propellant Mixture as Cause of OA-6 Atlas 5 Anomaly[Via Satellite 06-17-2016] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has traced the cause of the Atlas 5 rocket’s first stage…