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Photos: HTV supply ship glistens on approach to ISS
Read more →: Photos: HTV supply ship glistens on approach to ISSPhotos captured by astronauts on the International Space Station show a Japanese cargo freighter, covered with reflective solar…
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Countdown begins for launch of Indian military satellite
Read more →: Countdown begins for launch of Indian military satelliteIndia’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle rolls out to the Second Launch Pad at its launch base on Sriharikota…
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Scientists eager for restart of Pluto photo pipeline
Read more →: Scientists eager for restart of Pluto photo pipelineFour images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph…
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Orion parachute test evaluates failed chute scenarios
Read more →: Orion parachute test evaluates failed chute scenariosThe Orion Program has successfully conducted another parachute drop test over the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in the…
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Major Ground Firing Tests of the LM-5 Launch Vehicle Completed
Read more →: Major Ground Firing Tests of the LM-5 Launch Vehicle CompletedAt 16:35 on August 17, the second firing test of the second core stage power system of the…
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PlanetiQ Opens Satellite Weather Sensor Development Facility
Read more →: PlanetiQ Opens Satellite Weather Sensor Development Facility[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] Commercial weather startup PlanetiQ has opened a science and engineering facility in Boulder, Colo., where the…
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NASA Inaugurates SmallSat Technology with CYGNSS Mission
Read more →: NASA Inaugurates SmallSat Technology with CYGNSS Mission[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] The University of Michigan recently started building a constellation of eight microsatellites for use on…
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Brazil’s TV Globo Using Newtec Modulators for All-HD Production Strategy
Read more →: Brazil’s TV Globo Using Newtec Modulators for All-HD Production Strategy[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] Top Brazilian television network TV Globo has selected Newtec’s M6100 broadcast satellite modulator to upgrade…
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Russian institute plans all-female simulated moon mission for end of 2015
Read more →: Russian institute plans all-female simulated moon mission for end of 2015Following from their Mars-500 “long duration” simulation in 2011-2012, the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, Russia, has…
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Uranus, Neptune in NASA’s sights for new robotic mission
Read more →: Uranus, Neptune in NASA’s sights for new robotic missionNASA’s Voyager 2 mission captured this image of Uranus during its January 1986 flyby, the only encounter with…
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Es’hailSat Building New Teleport by 2017
Read more →: Es’hailSat Building New Teleport by 2017[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] Qatari satellite company Es’hailSat has selected a 50,000 square meter site north of the city…
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Dwarf planet Ceres’ puzzling ‘pyramid’ mountain gets close-up from NASA’s Dawn probe
Read more →: Dwarf planet Ceres’ puzzling ‘pyramid’ mountain gets close-up from NASA’s Dawn probeNASA’s Dawn spacecraft spotted this tall, conical mountain on Ceres from a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers).…