Tag: Cosmic Rays
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Photos: SpaceX rolls out rocket for next station resupply flight
SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 rocket rolled out of its hangar and up the ramp to Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A Sunday in preparation for liftoff on a two-day trek ferrying more than 6,400 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. Workers at the launch pad spent Sunday afternoon installing last-minute cargo…
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Live coverage: Station astronauts capture SpaceX supply ship
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s 12th operational Dragon resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Watch on a mobile device.
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Video: Time-lapse of Falcon 9 rocket raised for launch at pad 39A
SpaceX’s ground team hydraulically hoisted a 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket vertical at pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before dawn Monday ahead of a planned liftoff with a space station-bound robotic resupply craft. Liftoff is set for 12:31 p.m. EDT (1631 GMT) Monday to begin a two-day pursuit of the space station with…
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Watch a liftoff-to-landing replay of Monday’s SpaceX launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, then the launcher’s first stage returned to landing at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after sending a Dragon supply ship toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket delivered a SpaceX cargo capsule on course to haul…
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SpaceX rocket readied for space station resupply run
File photo of a Dragon spacecraft on top of a Falcon 9 rocket before a previous mission. Credit: SpaceX Ground teams at the Kennedy Space Center were packing last-minute cargo into a commercial Dragon supply ship Sunday, a day before the automated freighter is set for liftoff on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…
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Station-bound instrument to open new chapter in the story of cosmic rays
This mosaic image of Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion, was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Recent research shows that galactic cosmic rays flowing into our solar system originate in clusters like these. Credit: NASA/ESA/Arizona State University Physicists are gearing up to send a re-engineered science instrument originally designed…
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New Russian space base ready for first launch
A new $3 billion cosmodrome nestled in the remote taiga wilderness of Russia’s Far East, a sprawling, sparkling facility constructed at the behest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, will host its first rocket launch early Wednesday. A Soyuz rocket is set to blast off with three satellites at 0201 GMT Wednesday (10:01 p.m. EDT Tuesday)…