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China’s Mars rover travels over 400 meters
Read more →: China’s Mars rover travels over 400 metersChina’s Mars rover Zhurong has traveled more than 400 meters on the surface of the red planet, according…
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Blue Origin shares multimillion-dollar spaceship ticket proceeds with 19 charities
Read more →: Blue Origin shares multimillion-dollar spaceship ticket proceeds with 19 charitiesJeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, checks out some of the postcards submitted for spaceflight…
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Upper stage added to SLS stack in Vehicle Assembly Building
Read more →: Upper stage added to SLS stack in Vehicle Assembly BuildingThe Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage for NASA’s first Space Launch System test flight was stacked on top of…
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USNC-Tech and Blue Origin win a contract for nuclear thermal propulsion design
Read more →: USNC-Tech and Blue Origin win a contract for nuclear thermal propulsion designAn artist’s conception shows a spacecraft with a nuclear thermal propulsion system. (NASA Illustration) Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear…
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Facebook’s satellite connectivity team switches over to Amazon’s Project Kuiper
Read more →: Facebook’s satellite connectivity team switches over to Amazon’s Project KuiperA schematic shows the design for the phased-array antennas to be used for Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband…
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A tale of two spaceships: How Seattle tech titans helped launch suborbital space tours
Read more →: A tale of two spaceships: How Seattle tech titans helped launch suborbital space toursVirgin Galactic’s VSS Unity and its mothership (left) are modeled after the SpaceShipOne launch system (right) that was…
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China launches satellite group to detect global radio transmissions
Read more →: China launches satellite group to detect global radio transmissionsA Chinese Long March 6 rocket lifts off Friday from the Taiyuan space center. Credit: Xinhua China launched…
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China launches satellite to link mission control with space station
Read more →: China launches satellite to link mission control with space stationA Long March 3C rocket lifts off July 6 with China’s new Tianlian 1-05 data relay satellite. Credit:…
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Richard Branson rockets into space
Read more →: Richard Branson rockets into spaceSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Richard Branson floats inside the passenger cabin of the VSS Unity…
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Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson takes suborbital space trip, stealing the spotlight from Jeff Bezos
Read more →: Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson takes suborbital space trip, stealing the spotlight from Jeff BezosVirgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, fires up its hybrid rocket motor to head spaceward. (Virgin Galactic…
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Live coverage: Richard Branson flies to space aboard Virgin Galactic rocketplane
Read more →: Live coverage: Richard Branson flies to space aboard Virgin Galactic rocketplaneLive coverage of the flight of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity rocketplane carrying company founder Richard Branson and five…
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Richard Branson’s flight signals confidence in commercial space travel
Read more →: Richard Branson’s flight signals confidence in commercial space travelVirgin Galactic’s VSS Unity rocketplane is released for a glide flight over New Mexico last year. Credit: Virgin…