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  • NASA declares end for space station’s hurricane monitoring instrument

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    ISS-RapidScat wind speed data from a North Atlantic storm in October 2014, as seen by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System used by weather forecasters at NOAA’s Ocean Prediction Center. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/NOAA NASA’s RapidScat instrument mounted on a platform outside the International Space Station to track winds over the world’s…

  • SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship returns to Earth

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    The SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule descends to the Pacific Ocean on Saturday. Credit: SpaceX Wrapping up SpaceX’s fourth operational resupply flight to the International Space Station, a Dragon cargo capsule departed the high-flying research complex Saturday, dropped out of orbit and descended to a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California with…

  • Return of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft delayed

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    SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is attached to the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Credit: NASA Rough seas in the Pacific Ocean will keep SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule in space a few days longer than planned, with the unpiloted supply ship’s return to Earth now set for Saturday hauling a load of research specimens from the International…