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Planetary Resources pulls in cash from nation’s largest engineering firm to help mine asteroids
Read more →: Planetary Resources pulls in cash from nation’s largest engineering firm to help mine asteroidsPlanetary Resources, the asteroid-mining company backed by some of the biggest names in technology and aerospace, just announced…
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ILS Proton-M successfully launches Canada’s Anik G1
Read more →: ILS Proton-M successfully launches Canada’s Anik G1International Launch Services (ILS) launched their Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday at 19:36…
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen Visits CASC
Read more →: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen Visits CASCBEIJING, Apr. 10 (China Space News) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his delegation, accompanied by Vice…
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Orbital’s Antares: An eye on the present and the future
Read more →: Orbital’s Antares: An eye on the present and the futureOrbital are still hoping to launch their Antares rocket on its debut trip into space this coming week,…
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SLS SMAT: The Mini-Me version of the monster rocket
Read more →: SLS SMAT: The Mini-Me version of the monster rocketThe Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is constructing a scaled version of the Space Launch System (SLS), ahead…
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Captured Asteroid mission – Redefining EM-2 for the bold challenge
Read more →: Captured Asteroid mission – Redefining EM-2 for the bold challengeNASA administrator Charlie Bolden has officially announced an ambitious mission to send a crew to a captured asteroid…
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China Conducts First Space Science Active Experiment
Read more →: China Conducts First Space Science Active ExperimentBEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) — China’s first space science active experiment was conducted Friday morning to study the…
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Yuanwang III, VI depart for space-tracking missions
Read more →: Yuanwang III, VI depart for space-tracking missionsThe space-tracking ships Yuanwang III and Yuanwang VI departed from a port in east China’s Jiangsu Province on…
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EFT-1 Orion has its secondary structures installed
Read more →: EFT-1 Orion has its secondary structures installedThe first Orion set to launch into space is now looking more like an actual spaceship, as engineers…
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Ground system improves satellite navigation precision
Read more →: Ground system improves satellite navigation precisionA ground system aimed at enhancing the navigation precision of China’s homegrown BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) was…
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ISS gets communications overhaul to boost scientific output
Read more →: ISS gets communications overhaul to boost scientific outputThe International Space Station (ISS) has been undergoing an extensive internal communications hardware overhaul over the past week,…
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USCV-1: NASA planners slip first ISS commercial crew mission to late 2017
Read more →: USCV-1: NASA planners slip first ISS commercial crew mission to late 2017The first NASA crew to ride to the International Space Station on a commercial spacecraft may have to…