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Suspense at SpaceX: Live video cuts out as Falcon 9 is lost in latest sea landing attempt
Read more →: Suspense at SpaceX: Live video cuts out as Falcon 9 is lost in latest sea landing attemptThere were cheers, groans and no small amount of suspense at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., this morning,…
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LIGO gets lit up again by gravitational waves from another black hole crash
Read more →: LIGO gets lit up again by gravitational waves from another black hole crashAn artist’s conception shows gravitational waves emanating like ripples in space time as two black holes approach each…
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Video: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on dual-satellite delivery mission
Read more →: Video: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on dual-satellite delivery missionSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Wednesday at 10:29 a.m. EDT (1429 GMT), launching with two Boeing-built communications…
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SpaceX successfully fires satellites into orbit, but loses booster on landing
Read more →: SpaceX successfully fires satellites into orbit, but loses booster on landingIn this view from the Vehicle Assembly Building roof at the Kennedy Space Center, a Falcon 9 rocket…
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Photos: Navy satellite encapsulated, mated to Atlas 5
Read more →: Photos: Navy satellite encapsulated, mated to Atlas 5The U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System communications satellite No. 5 was encapsulated in the United Launch Alliance…
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Cygnus leaves space station and conducts NASA fire experiment in microgravity
Read more →: Cygnus leaves space station and conducts NASA fire experiment in microgravityCAPE CANAVERAL — Bidding farewell to the International Space Station today, the commercial Cygnus cargo ship separated to…
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Mission events timeline for Falcon 9’s launch for ABS and Eutelsat
Read more →: Mission events timeline for Falcon 9’s launch for ABS and EutelsatFollow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent into space from Cape Canaveral with the ABS…
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China Launches 23rd BeiDou Navigation Satellite
Read more →: China Launches 23rd BeiDou Navigation SatelliteBEIJING, June 13 (China Space News) — China launched a satellite to support its global navigation and positioning…
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China’s first high orbit remote sensing satellite put into use
Read more →: China’s first high orbit remote sensing satellite put into useChina’s first high orbit remote sensing satellite, Gaofen-4, went into use after six months of in-orbit testing, China…
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Jeff Bezos plans to live-stream Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflight
Read more →: Jeff Bezos plans to live-stream Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflightBlue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship lifts off for a test in January. (Credit: Blue Origin) For his next…
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China’s Beidou navigation network grows with successful launch
Read more →: China’s Beidou navigation network grows with successful launchA Long March 3C rocket blasted off at 1530 GMT (11:30 a.m. EDT; 11:30 p.m. Beijing time) Sunday…
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SpaceX conducts static fire test for Wednesday’s Falcon 9 flight
Read more →: SpaceX conducts static fire test for Wednesday’s Falcon 9 flightThe ABS 2A and Eutelsat 117 West B satellites will launch in a tandem stack configuration patented by…