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SES says SpaceX will launch its satellite in late February
Read more →: SES says SpaceX will launch its satellite in late FebruaryThe Falcon 9 rocket’s last launch from Cape Canaveral was in December. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s next launch from…
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Photos: NROL-45 payload fitted atop Delta 4 for launch
Read more →: Photos: NROL-45 payload fitted atop Delta 4 for launchThis collection of photographs shows the National Reconnaissance Office’s classified NROL-45 payload, already encapsulated in the Delta 4…
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NASA packs a big vision for space exploration into smaller $19 billion budget
Read more →: NASA packs a big vision for space exploration into smaller $19 billion budgetNASA is developing a heavy-lift rocket known as the Space Launch System, shown in this artist’s conception. Spending…
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Killed by a meteorite? Indian bus driver V. Kamaraj’s death may be a first
Read more →: Killed by a meteorite? Indian bus driver V. Kamaraj’s death may be a firstAn artist’s conception shows an asteroid entering Earth’s atmosphere. (Credit: NASA) Death by meteorite is a common theme in…
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Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave quest
Read more →: Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave questThis 3-D visualization shows the gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes. (Credit: NASA) It looks as…
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‘Slick 6:’ 30 years after the hopes of a West Coast space shuttle
Read more →: ‘Slick 6:’ 30 years after the hopes of a West Coast space shuttleThe shuttle Enterprise sits atop SLC-6 for “fit checks” in 1985. Credit: Air Force It was 1986 and…
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Videos: Atlas 5 caps a generation of GPS launches
Read more →: Videos: Atlas 5 caps a generation of GPS launchesA replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Global Positioning System 2F-12 satellite from…
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Recap story: Last GPS satellite of its generation arrives in space
Read more →: Recap story: Last GPS satellite of its generation arrives in spaceCAPE CANAVERAL — The main engine rumbling to life. Ice shards breaking free. The rocket lumbering off the…
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Photos: Atlas 5 launches navigation craft from Cape Canaveral
Read more →: Photos: Atlas 5 launches navigation craft from Cape CanaveralA collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the GPS…
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Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell dies at 85
Read more →: Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell dies at 85Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, stands by the deployed…
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Glonass navigation system reinforced by Soyuz launch
Read more →: Glonass navigation system reinforced by Soyuz launchA Soyuz rocket blasted off from Russia’s northern cosmodrome Sunday, adding another satellite to the nation’s Glonass navigation…
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Why haven’t we found aliens? Here’s the bad news, and the good news
Read more →: Why haven’t we found aliens? Here’s the bad news, and the good newsSETI pioneer Jill Tarter pays a visit to the Allen Telescope Array in California, one of the prime…