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Zhang Rongqiao: Mars explorer
Read more →: Zhang Rongqiao: Mars explorerThis engineer leads China’s first successful Mars mission, which reached the planet this year and landed a rover…
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China launches new Tianlian relay satellite
Read more →: China launches new Tianlian relay satelliteChina sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s…
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SpaceX to close out year with surge of launches
Read more →: SpaceX to close out year with surge of launchesEDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Dec. 16 with Starlink launch delay. A Falcon 9 rocket streaks off its launch pad in…
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NASA delays launch of Webb telescope to no earlier than Dec. 24
Read more →: NASA delays launch of Webb telescope to no earlier than Dec. 24Ground teams at the Guiana Space Center connect the James Webb Space Telescope with its Ariane 5 launcher…
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China’s commercial Ceres launcher delivers five satellites into orbit
Read more →: China’s commercial Ceres launcher delivers five satellites into orbitGalactic Energy’s second Ceres rocket blasts off from the Jiuquan space base. Credit: Galactic Energy A solid-fueled Ceres…
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Webb telescope mounted on top of Ariane 5 rocket in French Guiana
Read more →: Webb telescope mounted on top of Ariane 5 rocket in French GuianaThe James Webb Space Telescope is lifted on top of its Ariane 5 launcher inside the final assembly…
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China launches two satellites on 400th Long March rocket mission
Read more →: China launches two satellites on 400th Long March rocket missionA Long March 4B rocket launches two Shijian 6 satellites. Credit: CASC The 400th flight of China’s Long…
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Russian rocket deploys Express comsats into high-altitude orbit
Read more →: Russian rocket deploys Express comsats into high-altitude orbitA Russian rocket stage deployed two television and internet relay satellites into a high-altitude orbit 18 hours…
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Michael Strahan, Alan Shepard’s daughter and four others rocket into space
Read more →: Michael Strahan, Alan Shepard’s daughter and four others rocket into spaceSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin’s founder, pins the company’s astronaut wings on…
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SpaceX launches NASA mission to study dead stars
Read more →: SpaceX launches NASA mission to study dead starsSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now /…
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Proton rocket set to launch two Russian broadcasting satellites
Read more →: Proton rocket set to launch two Russian broadcasting satellitesA Proton rocket is raised vertical on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos Two Russian…
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Blue Origin poised for first launch with crew of six
Read more →: Blue Origin poised for first launch with crew of sixSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Blue Origin will launch a full crew of six to the…