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Arianespace announces competition for free nanosatellite launch
Read more →: Arianespace announces competition for free nanosatellite launchSpectators in Kourou, French Guiana, watch as an Ariane 5 rocket launches three commercial satellites from the Guiana…
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour meets Falcon 9 rocket for launch next week
Read more →: SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour meets Falcon 9 rocket for launch next weekSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft arrives at the company’s Falcon 9 hangar April 13 near pad 39A at…
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Blue Origin practices crew operations on suborbital test flight
Read more →: Blue Origin practices crew operations on suborbital test flightEDITOR’S NOTE: Updated April 15 with Bezos tweet. Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster lifts off at 12:51 p.m. EDT…
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Astrobotic selects SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch robotic lunar lander
Read more →: Astrobotic selects SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch robotic lunar landerA Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off in April 2019 with the Arabsat 6A commercial communications satellite. Credit: Walter…
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Blue Origin to rehearse for human passengers on suborbital flight
Read more →: Blue Origin to rehearse for human passengers on suborbital flightA view of Blue Origin’s launch site in West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin Finally on the cusp of…
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China launches experimental Shiyan satellite
Read more →: China launches experimental Shiyan satelliteA Long March 4B rocket takes off from the Taiyuan space base with a Shiyan 6 satellite. Credit:…
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Northrop Grumman servicer docks with active satellite in geosynchronous orbit
Read more →: Northrop Grumman servicer docks with active satellite in geosynchronous orbitA visible narrow field-of-view camera on the MEV 2 spacecraft captured this view of Intelsat 10-02 from a…
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Mars helicopter needs a software update before attempting first flight
Read more →: Mars helicopter needs a software update before attempting first flightNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its rotor blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7. They had been…
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April 12 marks 60 years since Gagarin’s spaceflight, 40 years since shuttle debut
Read more →: April 12 marks 60 years since Gagarin’s spaceflight, 40 years since shuttle debutCosmonaut Yuri Gagarin before launch April 12, 1961. Credit: Roscosmos Sixty years ago Monday, a 27-year-old Russian test…
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Soyuz crew welcomed aboard International Space Station
Read more →: Soyuz crew welcomed aboard International Space StationSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The three new arrivals from the Soyuz MS-18 mission, seen in…
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Live coverage: Soyuz launches with next space station crew
Read more →: Live coverage: Soyuz launches with next space station crewLive coverage of the Expedition 64 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below;…
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China launches new satellite for space environment survey
Read more →: China launches new satellite for space environment surveyChina successfully sent an experiment satellite into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s…