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Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave quest
Read more →: Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave questThis 3-D visualization shows the gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes. (Credit: NASA) It looks as…
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US Air Force’s GPS 2F Constellation Now Complete
Read more →: US Air Force’s GPS 2F Constellation Now Complete[Via Satellite 02-08-2016] The final satellite in the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System 2F series, GPS 2F-12,…
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‘Slick 6:’ 30 years after the hopes of a West Coast space shuttle
Read more →: ‘Slick 6:’ 30 years after the hopes of a West Coast space shuttleThe shuttle Enterprise sits atop SLC-6 for “fit checks” in 1985. Credit: Air Force It was 1986 and…
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Videos: Atlas 5 caps a generation of GPS launches
Read more →: Videos: Atlas 5 caps a generation of GPS launchesA replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Global Positioning System 2F-12 satellite from…
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Recap story: Last GPS satellite of its generation arrives in space
Read more →: Recap story: Last GPS satellite of its generation arrives in spaceCAPE CANAVERAL — The main engine rumbling to life. Ice shards breaking free. The rocket lumbering off the…
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Photos: Atlas 5 launches navigation craft from Cape Canaveral
Read more →: Photos: Atlas 5 launches navigation craft from Cape CanaveralA collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the GPS…
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Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell dies at 85
Read more →: Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell dies at 85Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, stands by the deployed…
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Glonass navigation system reinforced by Soyuz launch
Read more →: Glonass navigation system reinforced by Soyuz launchA Soyuz rocket blasted off from Russia’s northern cosmodrome Sunday, adding another satellite to the nation’s Glonass navigation…
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Why haven’t we found aliens? Here’s the bad news, and the good news
Read more →: Why haven’t we found aliens? Here’s the bad news, and the good newsSETI pioneer Jill Tarter pays a visit to the Allen Telescope Array in California, one of the prime…
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Boeing-built GPS satellite goes into orbit
Read more →: Boeing-built GPS satellite goes into orbitUnited Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket rises from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying the GPS…
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Hispasat Upgrading Ground Segment with Indra
Read more →: Hispasat Upgrading Ground Segment with Indra[Via Satellite 02-05-2016] Spanish satellite operator Hispasat is preparing the ground segment for the new Hispasat 1F and…
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Hispasat Upgrading Ground Segment with Indra
Read more →: Hispasat Upgrading Ground Segment with Indra[Via Satellite 02-05-2016] Spanish satellite operator Hispasat is preparing the ground segment for the new Hispasat 1F and…