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Quick work saved the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission from nearby explosion
Read more →: Quick work saved the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission from nearby explosionSmoke pours off Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad shortly after a Sept. 1 explosion. Credit: U.S. Air…
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SES stands by SpaceX after getting ‘good discount’ on reused rocket
Read more →: SES stands by SpaceX after getting ‘good discount’ on reused rocketThree of SpaceX’s recovered Falcon 9 boosters inside a hangar at launch pad 39A. Credit: SpaceX One of…
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Video: Post-launch news conference
Read more →: Video: Post-launch news conferenceAn hour after OSIRIS-REx separated from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on its trajectory to Asteroid…
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Video: NASA mission launched to return sample of asteroid
Read more →: Video: NASA mission launched to return sample of asteroidThe United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 189 feet tall and and weighing 840,000 pounds, unleashes 1.2…
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Photos: India’s GSLV fires off the launch pad
Read more →: Photos: India’s GSLV fires off the launch padPhoto credit: ISRO India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle climbed away from Sriharikota Island on the country’s east coast…
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OSIRIS-REx probe launched to asteroid in compelling search for the origins of life
Read more →: OSIRIS-REx probe launched to asteroid in compelling search for the origins of lifeCAPE CANAVERAL — Like reaching back in time to examine the conditions that existed in the ancient solar…
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Musk: No answers so far in ‘difficult’ failure investigation
Read more →: Musk: No answers so far in ‘difficult’ failure investigationCredit: US Launch Report SpaceX is more than a week into a company-led probe of a launch pad…
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Photos: Spectacular sunset launch of asteroid mission
Read more →: Photos: Spectacular sunset launch of asteroid missionSending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on an interplanetary trajectory to Asteroid Bennu, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket…
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GSLV puts advanced Indian weather satellite in orbit
Read more →: GSLV puts advanced Indian weather satellite in orbitUpdated at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) Sept. 8 after successful launch. The GSLV lifted off at 1120…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket rolls out to launch asteroid sampling probe
Read more →: Photos: Atlas 5 rocket rolls out to launch asteroid sampling probePoised to embark on a 7-year adventure to Asteroid Bennu and back, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return spacecraft was…
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NASA official says new mission selections on track despite InSight woes
Read more →: NASA official says new mission selections on track despite InSight woesArtist’s concept of the InSight lander on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A $150 million cost overrun and two-year launch…
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Photos: Asteroid probe encapsulated, mounted atop Atlas 5 for launch
Read more →: Photos: Asteroid probe encapsulated, mounted atop Atlas 5 for launchTechnicians inched the two halves of the Atlas 5’s aluminum nose cone around NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to package…