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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket aims for International Space Station
Read more →: Photos: Atlas 5 rocket aims for International Space StationA collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the Orbital…
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Atlas 5/Cygnus post-launch news conference
Read more →: Atlas 5/Cygnus post-launch news conferenceWatch the post-launch news conference from the Kennedy Space Center following the successful launch of an Atlas 5…
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Russian military satellites orbited by stripped-down Soyuz rocket
Read more →: Russian military satellites orbited by stripped-down Soyuz rocketA Russian satellite reportedly designed to demonstrate sensors to track enemy submarines and a passive secondary spacecraft to…
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Atlas 5 rocket sends Cygnus in hot pursuit of space station
Read more →: Atlas 5 rocket sends Cygnus in hot pursuit of space stationCAPE CANAVERAL — Bound for an orbital rendezvous with the International Space Station on Wednesday, a commercial Cygnus…
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Japanese probe fires rockets to steer into orbit at Venus
Read more →: Japanese probe fires rockets to steer into orbit at VenusUpdated at 0315 GMT (10:15 p.m. EST) Artist’s concept of the Akatsuki spacecraft. Five years after missing a…
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Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 on space station cargo mission
Read more →: Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 on space station cargo missionA replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Orbital ATK’s commercial Cygnus cargo freighter…
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See the highest-resolution snapshots from July’s Pluto flyby
Read more →: See the highest-resolution snapshots from July’s Pluto flybyIn this highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto’s water-ice crust appear jammed together…
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Take a last look at the Vega rocket’s middle-of-the-night liftoff
Read more →: Take a last look at the Vega rocket’s middle-of-the-night liftoffEurope’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, carrying high-tech thrusters and ultra-sensitive motion sensors to be used in a future gravitational…
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Testing of New Rocket Underway
Read more →: Testing of New Rocket UnderwayBEIJING, Dec. 1 (China Space News) — China is conducting tests on its largest and most powerful rocket,…
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Photos: Nightfall at Cape Canaveral on eve of Atlas launch to space station
Read more →: Photos: Nightfall at Cape Canaveral on eve of Atlas launch to space stationThese photos were taken on Wednesday, Dec. 2, approximately 24 hours before the scheduled liftoff of the United…
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European probe blasts off on gravitational wave demonstration
Read more →: European probe blasts off on gravitational wave demonstrationCredit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin KOUROU, French Guiana — A solid-fueled Vega launcher…
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Yaogan-29 Remote Sensing Satellite Launched
Read more →: Yaogan-29 Remote Sensing Satellite LaunchedA Long March-4C rocket carrying the Yaogan-29 remote sensing satellite blasts off at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center…