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Live coverage: India’s PSLV delivers international payloads to orbit
Read more →: Live coverage: India’s PSLV delivers international payloads to orbitLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a PSLV rocket from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center with…
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Launch of military’s new space-based satellite tracker delayed to August
Read more →: Launch of military’s new space-based satellite tracker delayed to AugustUpdated June 22. File photo of a Minotaur 4 rocket on a launch pad in Alaska before a…
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Updated Kepler catalog contains 219 new exoplanet candidates
Read more →: Updated Kepler catalog contains 219 new exoplanet candidatesNASA’s Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and…
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China’s cargo spacecraft starts independent operation
Read more →: China’s cargo spacecraft starts independent operationBEIJING, June 21 (Xinhua) — After flying with the Tiangong-2 space lab for about two months, China’s Tianzhou-1…
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SpaceX rocket passes key preflight test before liftoff from California
Read more →: SpaceX rocket passes key preflight test before liftoff from CaliforniaThe 10 Iridium Next communications satellites slated to launch Sunday from California were recently encapsulated inside the Falcon…
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Chinese broadcasting satellite ends up in wrong orbit after rocket failure
Read more →: Chinese broadcasting satellite ends up in wrong orbit after rocket failureFile photo of a previous Long March 3B launch. Credit: Xinhua Ground controllers could try to salvage a…
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Experiment devoted to neutron star research installed on space station
Read more →: Experiment devoted to neutron star research installed on space stationArtist’s concept of a pulsar (blue-white disk in center) pulling in matter from a nearby star (red disk…
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China Launches Space Telescope to Search for Black Holes, Pulsars
Read more →: China Launches Space Telescope to Search for Black Holes, PulsarsJIUQUAN, June 16 (China Space News) — China launched its first X-ray space telescope to observe black holes,…
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China willing to Cooperate in Peaceful Space Exploration: Xi
Read more →: China willing to Cooperate in Peaceful Space Exploration: XiBEIJING, June 8 (China Space News) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a letter of congratulations to…
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China’s cargo spacecraft completes second docking with space lab
Read more →: China’s cargo spacecraft completes second docking with space labBEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) — China’s Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft completed its second docking with Tiangong-2 space lab at…
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China Emphasizes Peaceful Space Exploration
Read more →: China Emphasizes Peaceful Space ExplorationBEIJING, June 8 (China Space News) — China wants to improve space infrastructure and develop space sciences under…
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China Achieves Key Breakthrough in Multiple Launch Vehicles
Read more →: China Achieves Key Breakthrough in Multiple Launch VehiclesBEIJING, June 9 (China Space News) — China is working on reusable launch vehicles and has achieved progress…