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SpaceX to Launch Mysterious Zuma Satellite on Friday
Read more →: SpaceX to Launch Mysterious Zuma Satellite on FridaySpaceX is preparing to launch a highly classified payload for the U.S. government this week, known only as…
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Scotland Hopes to Become a Major Player in NewSpace
Read more →: Scotland Hopes to Become a Major Player in NewSpaceScotland has been a fast riser in the new era of space technology, with companies such as Clyde…
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Dish Media Networks Contracts More Capacity on Amos 4
Read more →: Dish Media Networks Contracts More Capacity on Amos 4Spacecom announced that Nepal’s Dish Media Network has furthered its long-term connection on the Amos 4 satellite with…
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Year In Review 2017 (Part 4): One year to New Horizons’ flyby of MU69
Read more →: Year In Review 2017 (Part 4): One year to New Horizons’ flyby of MU69As science teams and researchers spent 2017 pouring through the wealth of data returned by the New Horizons…
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Russian official blames Nov. 28 launch failure on botched software programming
Read more →: Russian official blames Nov. 28 launch failure on botched software programmingA Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifts off Nov. 28 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Credit: Roscosmos A…
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Year in space: Look back at 2017’s black sun … look forward to 2018’s bright moon
Read more →: Year in space: Look back at 2017’s black sun … look forward to 2018’s bright moonEclipse watchers turned Aug. 21’s event into a party at Kerry Park in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. (GeekWire…
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Falcon Heavy preparing for Static Fire test
Read more →: Falcon Heavy preparing for Static Fire testSpaceX has been ticking off the milestones towards the maiden flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket, with the…
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Classified payload hoisted atop Delta 4 rocket at Vandenberg
Read more →: Classified payload hoisted atop Delta 4 rocket at VandenbergA clandestine satellite owned by the National Reconnaissance Office has been raised atop its United Launch Alliance Delta…
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How scientists are expanding the spectrum for SETI and the search for alien life
Read more →: How scientists are expanding the spectrum for SETI and the search for alien lifeThis map from the University of Puerto Rico’s Planetary Habitability Laboratory shows the known planetary systems within about…
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JAXA Experiments with New Satellite in Super Low Earth Orbit
Read more →: JAXA Experiments with New Satellite in Super Low Earth OrbitJAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries successfully launched two new Earth Observation (EO) satellites in the days before Christmas:…
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Time-lapse video: Falcon Heavy lowered after launch pad debut
Read more →: Time-lapse video: Falcon Heavy lowered after launch pad debutThe Falcon Heavy rocket was lowered to the horizontal position before sunrise Friday morning after less than a…
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Communications restored with newly-launched Angolan satellite
Read more →: Communications restored with newly-launched Angolan satelliteThe Angosat 1 satellite during launch preparations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: RSC Energia The Russian…