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Mars entry testbed to fly Monday after weather delays
Read more →: Mars entry testbed to fly Monday after weather delaysThe Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle is seen suspended from its balloon launch platform in Hawaii during a…
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Video: Falcon 9 nose shroud falls back to Earth
Read more →: Video: Falcon 9 nose shroud falls back to EarthSpaceX has released another jaw-dropping video from a camera fastened to a piece of a Falcon 9 rocket’s…
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Ground team battling on-and-off communications with LightSail
Read more →: Ground team battling on-and-off communications with LightSailLightSail’s solar sail undergoes a deployment test on the ground in September 2014. Credit: Justin Foley/The Planetary Society…
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Soyuz rocket returns to flight with military launch
Read more →: Soyuz rocket returns to flight with military launchA Soyuz-2.1a rocket blasts off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 1524 GMT (11:24 a.m. EDT). Credit: Russian Ministry…
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The DFH-5 Satellite Platform Entered Engineering Stage
Read more →: The DFH-5 Satellite Platform Entered Engineering StageBEIJING, June 5. (China Space News) — Recently, the DFH-5 satellite platform, being developed by CAST (China Academy…
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ESA reveals candidates for new space science missions
Read more →: ESA reveals candidates for new space science missionsEarth’s protective barrier – the magnetosphere – shields it from some of the effects of the supersonic solar…
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Hubble shows Pluto’s moons don’t know which end is up
Read more →: Hubble shows Pluto’s moons don’t know which end is upSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Pluto and its five known moons. Credit: NASA/STScI/Mar Showalter As NASA’s…
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NASA marks 50th anniversary of first spacewalk
Read more →: NASA marks 50th anniversary of first spacewalkSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Ed White stepped outside the Gemini 4 spacecraft on June…
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Canada backs ISS extension to 2024, gains two crew slots
Read more →: Canada backs ISS extension to 2024, gains two crew slotsThe International Space Station’s Canadian-built robotic arm and Dextre robot. Credit: NASA The Canadian government announced Tuesday its…
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Progress failure probe points to linkage with Soyuz rocket
Read more →: Progress failure probe points to linkage with Soyuz rocketRussian technicians work on the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket and Progress M-27M spacecraft before their doomed…
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Launch of U.S.-French oceanography satellite postponed
Read more →: Launch of U.S.-French oceanography satellite postponedThe Jason 3 satellite inside a clean room at its Thales Alenia Space factory in Cannes. Credit: CNES/Thales…
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Cassini beams back last views of Saturn’s moon Hyperion
Read more →: Cassini beams back last views of Saturn’s moon HyperionCassini’s narrow-angle camera captured this view of Hyperion on May 31 at a range of 37,000 miles. Credit:…