Third stage of the Soyuz rocket conducting the maiden flight from Russia’s new Vostochny Cosmodrome re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday, April 30, 2016 after spending just over two days in orbit.
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Robotics operations were underway aboard the International Space Station this week to set up for the arrival of a new set of batteries later this year to replace aging batteries installed on the Station’s truss segments.
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United Launch Alliance has isolated the root cause of the performance hit suffered by the Atlas V’s first stage in last month’s Cygnus OA-6 mission that left the Centaur upper stage only with second of fuel margin to send the cargo spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station.
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SpaceX won a $82.7 million contract from the United States Air Force for the launch of the GPS 3-2 navigation satellite atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket in May 2018
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Multi-Purpose End-to-End Robotic Operations Network (METERON) – Experiment Ops (METERON uses a ground-based rover that is remote-controlled by an astronaut
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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency has officially declared the Hitomi X-Ray Observatory lost and ceased all attempts to communicate with the stricken spacecraft, marking the untimely end of a mission that promised a great scientific return in the field of high-energy astrophysics.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket completed its inaugural launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday, climbing into clear skies over the new launch base located in Russia’s far east.
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Experiments: Strata-1 Experiment Activation [Strata-I investigates the properties and behavior of regolith, the impact-shattered soil found on asteroids, comets, the
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India’s successfully launched the seventh and last satellite in the first generation of Indian navigation satellites into orbit on Thursday via the country’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
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Russia’s Soyuz rocket took to the skies in a new setting on Thursday, conducting the inaugural launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern region of the country.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket completed its inaugural launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday, climbing into clear skies over the new launch base located in Russia’s far east.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket completed its inaugural launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday, climbing into clear skies over the new launch base located in Russia’s far east.
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SpaceX announced on Wednesday plans to send an unpiloted Dragon 2 spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018 to demonstrate the technologies needed for landing large payloads on the planet – an absolute necessity for future human exploration of our neighbor in the solar system.
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The Sentinel-1B satellite – set to complete the radar pair in the Copernicus satellite constellation – successfully spread its wings in orbit, deploying its solar arrays and 12-meter long radar antenna as part of its critical three-day Launch and Early Operations Phase.
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India’s Regional Navigation Satellite System is set for completion on Thursday when the seventh navigation satellite will take flight on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
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The first microsatellite built and operated by the Philippines was released from the International Space Station on Wednesday.
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Microsatellite Deployment: The Filipino Diwata-1 Microsatellite was successfully deployed by the Japanese Remote Manipulator System. See our detailed article for
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