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Long March 3A rocket gives boost to Chinese navigation satellite
Read more →: Long March 3A rocket gives boost to Chinese navigation satelliteA Long March 3A rocket blasts off with a Beidou navigation satellite at 2011 GMT (4:11 p.m. EDT)…
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Progress cargo craft rolled out for launch to space station
Read more →: Progress cargo craft rolled out for launch to space stationThe second of three robotic resupply ships going to the International Space Station in two weeks has arrived…
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Soyuz aces test campaign at new Vostochny Cosmodrome
Read more →: Soyuz aces test campaign at new Vostochny CosmodromeThe Soyuz-2.1a rocket sits on its launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome during tests last week. Credit: TsSKB…
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Japan’s newest space telescope goes silent
Read more →: Japan’s newest space telescope goes silentUpdated on March 28. Artist’s concept of the Hitomi observatory. Credit: JAXA/Akihiro Ikeshita Japan has lost contact with…
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Photos: Cygnus goes from Cape Canaveral to the space station
Read more →: Photos: Cygnus goes from Cape Canaveral to the space stationThis collection of official NASA photographs captures the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket rolling to the pad…
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Traveling Cygnus pulls into port at International Space Station
Read more →: Traveling Cygnus pulls into port at International Space StationCAPE CANAVERAL — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station used the robotic arm to snare a commercial cargo…
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Atlas 5 forced to improvise during Tuesday’s climb to orbit
Read more →: Atlas 5 forced to improvise during Tuesday’s climb to orbitCredit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — The Centaur upper stage launching the Cygnus space freighter Tuesday persevered…
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Soyuz launcher puts Russian military spy satellite in orbit
Read more →: Soyuz launcher puts Russian military spy satellite in orbitThe Soyuz rocket carrying Russia’s second Bars-M military spy satellite lifted off at 0942 GMT (5:42 a.m. EDT;…
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Pentagon opens investigation into contracts with ULA
Read more →: Pentagon opens investigation into contracts with ULAFile photo of an Atlas 5 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral with a U.S. Navy communications satellite in…
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Reviewers approve early design work on new Vulcan rocket
Read more →: Reviewers approve early design work on new Vulcan rocketVulcan is visualized here in its 441 configuration. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — Work to create…
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2nd Cygnus ship in three months rockets to orbit aboard Atlas 5
Read more →: 2nd Cygnus ship in three months rockets to orbit aboard Atlas 5CAPE CANAVERAL — An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched another Cygnus cargo freighter for Orbital ATK Tuesday night,…
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Europe’s ExoMars orbiter smoothly cruising toward red planet
Read more →: Europe’s ExoMars orbiter smoothly cruising toward red planetArtist’s concept of the Trace Gas Orbiter releasing the Schiaparelli lander on approach to Mars on Oct. 16.…