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New Horizons prepares for New Year’s Day 2019 Kuiper Belt Object encounter
Read more →: New Horizons prepares for New Year’s Day 2019 Kuiper Belt Object encounterA year and a half after its historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is…
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SpaceX set to return to action with RTF Falcon 9 launch of Iridium spacecraft
Read more →: SpaceX set to return to action with RTF Falcon 9 launch of Iridium spacecraftSpaceX is set to Return To Flight (RTF) no sooner than January 14, with the Falcon 9 launch…
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Shuttle engine delivered to Orion service module assembly site
Read more →: Shuttle engine delivered to Orion service module assembly siteOrion’s service module engine undergoes vibration testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA A former…
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SpaceX failure probe complete; flights to resume Sunday from California
Read more →: SpaceX failure probe complete; flights to resume Sunday from CaliforniaSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo. Credit: NASA After an exhaustive investigation, SpaceX engineers have…
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SpaceX traces Falcon 9 blast to failed helium tank; return to flight set for Jan. 8
Read more →: SpaceX traces Falcon 9 blast to failed helium tank; return to flight set for Jan. 8SpaceX’s return to flight is due to take place Jan. 8 at its launch facility at Vandenberg Air…
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Space station battery work starts New Year’s Eve
Read more →: Space station battery work starts New Year’s EveSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Working over the New Year holiday weekend, robot arm operators at…
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World View stratospheric flight company settles into Spaceport Tucson, just in time
Read more →: World View stratospheric flight company settles into Spaceport Tucson, just in timeThe Breitling Jet Team flies over Spaceport Tucson in October. (World View Photo) Arizona-based World View Enterprises is settling…
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Mannequin Challenge jumps the shark in zero-G, courtesy of space station crew
Read more →: Mannequin Challenge jumps the shark in zero-G, courtesy of space station crewRussian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky stays immobile as he floats in a Superman pose for an out-of-this-world Mannequin Challenge.…
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‘Impossible’ EmDrive thruster attracts rising attention, even from skeptics
Read more →: ‘Impossible’ EmDrive thruster attracts rising attention, even from skepticsThe EmDrive apparatus was set up inside a vacuum chamber for testing. (White et al. via AIAA) For…
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Iridium satellites closed up for launch on Falcon 9 rocket
Read more →: Iridium satellites closed up for launch on Falcon 9 rocketThe first 10 Iridium Next satellites were encapsulated inside the payload fairing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket earlier…
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First Carbon Dioxide Monitoing Satellite Successfully Launched
Read more →: First Carbon Dioxide Monitoing Satellite Successfully LaunchedThe Long March-2D rocket carrying a carbon dioxide monitoring satellite blasts off from the launch pad at the…
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China Launches Satellite to Monitor Global Carbon Emissions
Read more →: China Launches Satellite to Monitor Global Carbon EmissionsJIUQUAN, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) — China launched a carbon dioxide monitoing satellite via a Long March-2D rocket from…