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Virgin Galactic Switches LauncherOne Carrier from WhiteKnightTwo to Boeing 747
Read more →: Virgin Galactic Switches LauncherOne Carrier from WhiteKnightTwo to Boeing 747[Via Satellite 12-04-2015] To accommodate an increase in the payload capability of LauncherOne, Virgin Galactic has swapped the…
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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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Third and Fourth Galileo FOC Satellites Enter Service
Read more →: Third and Fourth Galileo FOC Satellites Enter Service[Via Satellite 12-04-2015] The Galileo Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites 3 and 4, assembled by OHB System AG…
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How Satellite Made a Difference in Nepal — Part Two
Read more →: How Satellite Made a Difference in Nepal — Part Two[Via Satellite 12-04-2015] When the April 2015 earthquake rattled Nepal, it destroyed sobering amounts of infrastructure, took lives,…
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ViaSat Exede Broadcasting University of California, San Diego Sports
Read more →: ViaSat Exede Broadcasting University of California, San Diego Sports[Via Satellite 12-04-2015] ViaSat has partnered with The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to live stream a wide variety of…
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Arianespace Wins Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38 Launch Contract
Read more →: Arianespace Wins Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38 Launch Contract[Via Satellite 12-04-2015] Azercosmos and Intelsat have chosen Arianespace to launch the Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38 telecommunications satellite. The…
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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…
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LISA Pathfinder blasts off to blaze a trail for relativity’s biggest test
Read more →: LISA Pathfinder blasts off to blaze a trail for relativity’s biggest testThe LISA Pathfinder probe lifts off from the European Space Agency’s spaceport in Kourou. (ESA photo) The LISA…