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Rosetta spacecraft heads for comet crash landing
Read more →: Rosetta spacecraft heads for comet crash landingSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of the Rosetta spacecraft just before impact with comet…
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Historic Rosetta mission to comet 67P concludes with landing
Read more →: Historic Rosetta mission to comet 67P concludes with landingAfter more than 12 years in space and two years at comet 67P, the European Space Agency has…
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Gogo Wins Air France-KLM Connectivity Deal
Read more →: Gogo Wins Air France-KLM Connectivity Deal[Via Satellite 09-29-2016] In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) provider Gogo has signed a deal with Air France-KLM to connect its…
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Spacecom Seeking Placeholder Satellite While Building a new Amos 6
Read more →: Spacecom Seeking Placeholder Satellite While Building a new Amos 6[Via Satellite 09-29-2016] In the wake of losing the long anticipated Amos 6 satellite Sept. 1 during SpaceX’s…
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Video: Rosetta scientist Matt Taylor on the end of mission
Read more →: Video: Rosetta scientist Matt Taylor on the end of missionAstronomy Now speaks with Matt Taylor, Rosetta project scientist, at the European Space Agency’s mission control in Darmstadt,…
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Firefly Alpha Rocket Combustor Completes Full Mission Duty Cycle Test
Read more →: Firefly Alpha Rocket Combustor Completes Full Mission Duty Cycle Test[Via Satellite 09-29-2016] Firefly Space Systems has successfully completed more than 50 hot fire tests, including multiple full…
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Tiangong-2 Space Lab Enters Preset Orbit for Docking with Manned Spacecraft
Read more →: Tiangong-2 Space Lab Enters Preset Orbit for Docking with Manned SpacecraftBEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists on Sunday maneuvered the country’s Tiangong-2 space lab to a preset…
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Scientific Experiment Apparatus on Tiangong-2 Put into Operation
Read more →: Scientific Experiment Apparatus on Tiangong-2 Put into OperationBEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) — Scientific apparatus carried by Tiangong-2 began operational at around 6:41 p.m. Thursday Beijing…
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Russia’s S7 Group Buys Sea Launch
Read more →: Russia’s S7 Group Buys Sea Launch[Via Satellite 09-28-2016] S7 Group, the largest private aviation holding company in Russia, has agreed to purchase Sea…
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A virtual marketplace for a future Moon Village? The FAA just might make it happen
Read more →: A virtual marketplace for a future Moon Village? The FAA just might make it happenAn artist’s conception shows a permanent lunar base that’s part of the European Space Agency’s “Moon Village” vision.…
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A million people on Mars? Explaining Elon Musk’s bold plan to colonize the Red Planet
Read more →: A million people on Mars? Explaining Elon Musk’s bold plan to colonize the Red PlanetMusk’s goal is to send 1 million settlers to Mars within 100 years. Photo: SpaceX. Colonies on Mars…
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Reality check: Elon Musk’s Mars plan will cost more, take longer. What else is new?
Read more →: Reality check: Elon Musk’s Mars plan will cost more, take longer. What else is new?An artist’s conception shows a traveler looking out at Mars through the window of SpaceX’s future passenger spaceship.…