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Live coverage: Falcon Heavy launches, three boosters land safely
Read more →: Live coverage: Falcon Heavy launches, three boosters land safelyLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from launch pad 39A at…
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy ready for first commercial launch
Read more →: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy ready for first commercial launchEDITOR’S NOTE: Updated after SpaceX scrubbed Wednesday’s launch attempt. The Falcon Heavy rocket stands vertical at pad 39A…
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Astronomers capture first image of black hole’s event horizon
Read more →: Astronomers capture first image of black hole’s event horizonSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight…
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Photos: Falcon Heavy raised vertical at pad 39A
Read more →: Photos: Falcon Heavy raised vertical at pad 39ASpaceX’s second Falcon Heavy, outfitted to produce more thrust than the heavy-lifter’s debut flight last year, was raised…
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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe releases ‘bomb’ at asteroid
Read more →: Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe releases ‘bomb’ at asteroidArtist’s illustration of Hayabusa 2’s impactor experiment. Credit: JAXA Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft dropped an explosive charge on…
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Watch the Falcon Heavy fire up its engines
Read more →: Watch the Falcon Heavy fire up its enginesThe second Falcon Heavy fires its first stage engines as part of a routine pre-flight test for the…
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Soyuz launch deploys last of O3b’s first-generation broadband satellites
Read more →: Soyuz launch deploys last of O3b’s first-generation broadband satellitesA Soyuz ST-B rocket lifts off from the Guiana Space Center on Thursday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique…
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Progress cargo freighter docks with space station after fast-track rendezvous
Read more →: Progress cargo freighter docks with space station after fast-track rendezvousEDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 1445 GMT (10:45 a.m. EDT) Thursday after a successful docking. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifts…
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Israel’s Beresheet lander brakes into lunar orbit
Read more →: Israel’s Beresheet lander brakes into lunar orbitThe Beresheet spacecraft’s six-minute deceleration burn Thursday steered the probe into orbit around the moon. Credit: SpaceIL Six…
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Live coverage: Four more O3b broadband launch aboard Soyuz rocket
Read more →: Live coverage: Four more O3b broadband launch aboard Soyuz rocketLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with four O3b broadband…
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Israel’s Beresheet lander heads for make-or-break lunar capture maneuver
Read more →: Israel’s Beresheet lander heads for make-or-break lunar capture maneuverArtist’s illustration of the Beresheet lander in orbit round the moon. Credit: SpaceIL An Israeli spacecraft has one…
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InSight scientists not sure stalled Mars heat probe can be recovered
Read more →: InSight scientists not sure stalled Mars heat probe can be recoveredA camera on the end of the InSight lander’s robotic arm took this picture of the Heat and…