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Antenna snag strikes Progress cargo freighter
Read more →: Antenna snag strikes Progress cargo freighterThe Progress M-27M cargo craft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz rocket at 0709 GMT…
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Mexican satellite launch grounded for engineering review
Read more →: Mexican satellite launch grounded for engineering reviewFile photo of a Proton rocket on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan before a…
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Falcon 9 rocket powers into space with satellite for Turkmenistan
Read more →: Falcon 9 rocket powers into space with satellite for TurkmenistanSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:03 p.m. EDT (2303 GMT) after a 49-minute weather delay. Credit:…
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Turkmenistan’s first satellite braced for liftoff
Read more →: Turkmenistan’s first satellite braced for liftoffSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket with Turkmenistan’s first satellite rolls out to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Sunday.…
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New details emerge about electric propulsion experiment aboard X-37B
Read more →: New details emerge about electric propulsion experiment aboard X-37BCredit: Air Force CAPE CANAVERAL — All systems are now “go” for launch of the Air Force’s X-37B…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches its fifth Falcon 9 flight of the year
Read more →: Live coverage: SpaceX launches its fifth Falcon 9 flight of the yearLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with the TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat communications satellites. Text…
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Ariane 5 sends Thor 7 and Sicral 2 satellites into orbit
Read more →: Ariane 5 sends Thor 7 and Sicral 2 satellites into orbitThe Ariane 5 rocket blasts off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 2000 GMT (4 p.m. EDT; 5 p.m.…
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Commercial Ariane 5 flight rescheduled for Sunday
Read more →: Commercial Ariane 5 flight rescheduled for SundayThe 179-foot-tall Ariane 5 rocket rolled to the launch pad Thursday, but had to return to the Guiana…
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Clouds in the forecast for Monday’s Falcon 9 launch
Read more →: Clouds in the forecast for Monday’s Falcon 9 launchSpaceX’s mission patch for the Falcon 9 launch with TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat. Credit: SpaceX Forecasters will be watching clouds and…
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High-flying tune-ups gave us the Hubble generation
Read more →: High-flying tune-ups gave us the Hubble generationSTORY WRITTEN FOR ASTRONOMY NOW & USED WITH PERMISSION The Hubble Space Telescope in the payload bay of space shuttle…
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Live coverage: Two satellites lift off aboard Ariane 5
Read more →: Live coverage: Two satellites lift off aboard Ariane 5Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Thor 7 and Sicral…
