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Spaceflight Industries inks partnerships to improve its ‘cellphone network for space’
Read more →: Spaceflight Industries inks partnerships to improve its ‘cellphone network for space’Spaceflight Industries announced a partnership today with Spire Global to expand its network of ground stations for its…
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See NASA’s Pluto explorer before embarkment from Earth
Read more →: See NASA’s Pluto explorer before embarkment from EarthPhoto credit: Ben Cooper/Launchphotography.com NASA’s New Horizons probe, armored for a nine-year journey through the cold, inhospitable depths…
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Cliffs, chasms and craters revealed in latest New Horizons images
Read more →: Cliffs, chasms and craters revealed in latest New Horizons imagesAn annotated version of an image of Pluto captured July 11 by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager…
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Pluto probe project manager gives advice to team
Read more →: Pluto probe project manager gives advice to teamNew Horizons project manager Glen Fountain, a veteran of nearly 50 years at the Johns Hopkins University Applied…
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Clear sailing expected for Pluto flyby
Read more →: Clear sailing expected for Pluto flybyThere is no sign of an undiscovered moon lurking around Pluto in data streaming back to Earth from NASA’s…
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Pluto stakes claim as ‘King of the Kuiper Belt’
Read more →: Pluto stakes claim as ‘King of the Kuiper Belt’Pluto’s bright, mysterious “heart” is rotating into view, ready for its close-up on close approach, in this image…
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Preview: New GPS navigation satellite heads into space this week
Read more →: Preview: New GPS navigation satellite heads into space this weekCAPE CANAVERAL — The Global Positioning System, its precision navigation and timing services made possible by the U.S.…
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NASA probe finally on Pluto’s doorstep
Read more →: NASA probe finally on Pluto’s doorstepSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI Three billion…
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Question time with Alan Stern, the Pluto evangelist
Read more →: Question time with Alan Stern, the Pluto evangelistAlan Stern, New Horizons’ principal investigator, started thinking about a mission to Pluto in the 1980s. Credit: NASA/Aubrey…
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Photos: GPS 2F-10 readied for launch
Read more →: Photos: GPS 2F-10 readied for launchThis collection of photographs shows the Air Force’s Global Positioning System 2F-10 navigation satellite being encapsulated in the…
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New Horizons gets last look at Pluto’s mystery spots
Read more →: New Horizons gets last look at Pluto’s mystery spotsNew Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager captured this view of Pluto early Saturday, July 11, at a distance…
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New contact with intractable comet lander
Read more →: New contact with intractable comet landerArtist’s concept of the Philae lander. Credit: DLR Europe’s Rosetta comet probe re-established momentary contact with the Philae…