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  • Soyuz liftoff glimpsed by orbiting observer and launch pad cameras

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    The launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket July 14 with more than 70 satellites was captured in multiple views from a sharp-eyed orbiting nanosatellite and cameras positioned around the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian state space corporation, Roscosmos, released a video clip containing imagery of last week’s blastoff from several…

  • Soyuz rocket lifts off with 73 satellites

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    Updated at 0830 GMT (4:30 a.m. EDT) with Kanopus-V-IK separation. Updated at 1600 GMT (11 a.m. EDT) with mission success. A Russian Soyuz booster lifted off Friday from Kazakhstan on a complex mission to deploy 73 satellites into three different orbits, including a Russian spacecraft to locate forest fires, 48 CubeSats for Planet’s global Earth…

  • Soyuz rolled out for launch of multinational satellite cluster

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    A Soyuz rocket arrived at a launch pad Tuesday in Kazakhstan for liftoff later this week with a satellite to monitor natural disasters and track forest fires from orbit and 72 secondary payloads from Russia, the United States, Germany, Norway and Japan. The Russian launcher’s blastoff is timed for 0636:49 GMT (2:36:49 a.m. EDT; 12:36:49…

  • InSight lander’s troubled seismometer passes major test

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    The InSight spacecraft is pictured in 2015 at Lockheed Martin’s assembly facility near Denver. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin A balky interplanetary seismic instrument that ran into technical problems in 2015, forcing a two-year delay in the launch of NASA’s InSight lander to Mars, cleared a major test last week after engineers redesigned part of the sensor…

  • Soyuz rolled to launch pad for first geostationary launch from French Guiana

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    A Soyuz rocket was transferred to the launch pad in French Guiana on Tuesday for a flight at the end of the week with the Hispasat 36W-1 communications satellite. Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017 A Russian-built Soyuz rocket moved to its launch pad on the northeastern coast of South America on Tuesday ahead of a Friday…

  • Hunt for water at Ceres goes underground

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    The small, bright crater Oxo (6 miles, 10 kilometers wide) on Ceres is seen in this perspective view. The elevation has been exaggerated by a factor of two. The view was made using enhanced-color images from NASA’s Dawn mission. Dawn’s visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) has found evidence of water ice at this crater.…

  • New contact with intractable comet lander

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    Artist’s concept of the Philae lander. Credit: DLR Europe’s Rosetta comet probe re-established momentary contact with the Philae lander late Thursday, renewing hopes of starting up the craft’s research instruments after two weeks of radio silence dampened the moods of scientists. Thursday’s contact, which lasted 12 minutes before failing, was the first time ground controllers…

  • Scientific riches await Philae comet lander, if it wakes up

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    This four-image mosaic comprises images taken from a distance of 20.1 kilometers (12.5 miles) from the center of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Dec. 10. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM Optimistic Europe’s hibernating Philae comet lander can be revived, mission controllers plan to try and contact the spacecraft as soon as January as the search narrows for the probe’s final…

  • Woerner tapped as next ESA director general

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    DLR chairman Johann-Dietrich Woerner will take over as ESA’s director general on July 1, 2015. Credit: ESA–P. Sebirot, 2014 Johann-Dietrich Woerner, head of the German Aerospace Center, will take over as director general of the European Space Agency on July 1. Woerner will take over from Jean-Jacques Dordain, who has held the top post at…

  • Dream Chaser’s European deal points to multi-role ambitions

    Dream Chaser’s European deal points to multi-role ambitions

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    The new European allies of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser have officially announced “cooperative understandings” that not only combine a transatlantic engineering boost for the baby orbiter, but may also result in Dream Chasers hitching rides atop of an Ariane rocket. More importantly, the announcement provided extra details on the vehicle’s future ambitions. Dream Chaser Deal:…