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NASA picks three companies to send commercial landers to the moon
Read more →: NASA picks three companies to send commercial landers to the moonArtist’s concept of Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander. Credit: Astrobotic NASA has announced that Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and OrbitBeyond…
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Photos: Proton blasts off with Yamal 601
Read more →: Photos: Proton blasts off with Yamal 601Look back on the May 30 launch of a Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan…
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Dragon capsule returns to Earth from space station with 2.1 tons of cargo
Read more →: Dragon capsule returns to Earth from space station with 2.1 tons of cargoSpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft is grappled by the International Space Station’s Canadian-built robotic arm before release Monday. Credit:…
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Live coverage: Dragon cargo capsule returns to Earth
Read more →: Live coverage: Dragon cargo capsule returns to EarthLive coverage of the departure of SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship from the International Space Station and its splashdown…
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Proton rocket lifts off with Yamal 601 communications satellite
Read more →: Proton rocket lifts off with Yamal 601 communications satelliteEDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 11:30 p.m. EDT (0330 GMT) after confirmation of a successful mission. A Proton rocket lifts…
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NASA to shut down Spitzer Space Telescope early next year
Read more →: NASA to shut down Spitzer Space Telescope early next yearThis infrared view of the butterfly-shaped W40 nebula, a star-forming cloud of gas and dust 1,400 light-years from…
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Northrop Grumman looking into dramatic nozzle anomaly on Omega rocket motor
Read more →: Northrop Grumman looking into dramatic nozzle anomaly on Omega rocket motorSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Near the end of a ground-shaking test firing of Northrop Grumman’s…
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China Satellite Navigation Conference Opens in Beijing
Read more →: China Satellite Navigation Conference Opens in BeijingBEIJING, May 25 (China Space News) — The most recent achievements of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS)…
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Launch of Yaogan-33 Satellite Fails in North China
Read more →: Launch of Yaogan-33 Satellite Fails in North ChinaTAIYUAN, May 23 (Xinhua) — The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Long…
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Cosmonauts complete tasks outside space station, honor spacewalk pioneer
Read more →: Cosmonauts complete tasks outside space station, honor spacewalk pioneerSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Spacewalkers Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin work outside the Pirs docking…
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Soyuz perseveres through lightning strike with Glonass satellite
Read more →: Soyuz perseveres through lightning strike with Glonass satelliteA Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Glonass navigation satellite withstood a lightning strike seconds after liftoff Monday, and…
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NASA says SpaceX readying Crew Dragon capsule for possible piloted test flight by end of year
Read more →: NASA says SpaceX readying Crew Dragon capsule for possible piloted test flight by end of yearSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of Kathy Lueders, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager. Credit:…