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Europa Clipper concept team aims for launch in 2022
Read more →: Europa Clipper concept team aims for launch in 2022Artist’s concept of the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL With a commitment from the Obama administration finally in…
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Atlas/MMS launch timeline
Read more →: Atlas/MMS launch timelineCAPE CANAVERAL — This is the ascent timeline to be followed by the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5…
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Space station crew ready to close out 167-day mission
Read more →: Space station crew ready to close out 167-day missionCredit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. Navy test pilot will buckle into custom-molded…
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Stationary rocket to be test-fired in Utah for NASA
Read more →: Stationary rocket to be test-fired in Utah for NASACoverage begins at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT). The largest solid rocket booster in the world, an extended…
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Pluto-bound probe tweaks its trajectory
Read more →: Pluto-bound probe tweaks its trajectoryArtist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto. Credit: JHUAPL NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft fine-tuned its path…
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Long March 6 launch to put new engine to the test
Read more →: Long March 6 launch to put new engine to the testChina will soon conduct the first flight of the Long March 6 launch vehicle using the country’s new-generation…
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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid mission checks out
Read more →: Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid mission checks outArtist’s concept of the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft. Credit: JAXA/Akihiro Ikeshita Three months into an interplanetary cruise expected to…
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Preview: Atlas 5 rocket to launch NASA magnetic field study
Read more →: Preview: Atlas 5 rocket to launch NASA magnetic field studyCAPE CANAVERAL — A $1.1 billion science investigation involving four formation-flying satellites circling the Earth, each one identical,…
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Weeks from another launch, SpaceX keeping pace with manifest
Read more →: Weeks from another launch, SpaceX keeping pace with manifestFile photo of a Falcon 9 rocket inside SpaceX’s hangar at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit:…
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Weather looking acceptable for Atlas launch
Read more →: Weather looking acceptable for Atlas launchCAPE CANAVERAL — The preliminary weather outlook for Thursday night’s Atlas 5 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral is…
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NASA orders missions to resupply space station in 2017
Read more →: NASA orders missions to resupply space station in 2017A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station in September 2014. Credit: NASA NASA has ordered four…
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Dawn arrives for the first exploration of a dwarf planet
Read more →: Dawn arrives for the first exploration of a dwarf planetCeres is seen from the Dawn spacecraft on March 1 at a distance of about 30,000 miles. Credit:…