China conducted its fifth successful orbital launch of the year on Sunday involving a Long March 2D rocket lifting the Yaogan-30 reconnaissance satellite into orbit.
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A Long March 3B rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on May 14, 2016 after a little over six months in orbit, making a slow decay from a highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit. The Long March 3B rocket launched the ChinaSat-2C communications satellite.
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A Vostock rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on May 13, 2016 after over 35 years in orbit, making a slow decay after launching the Meteor 1-30 weather satellite for the Soviet Union in 1980.
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Experiments: SKIN B Experiment Ops [SKIN B is a German Aerospace Center Payload that studies the the influence of microgravity
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The SpaceX Dragon made a successful return from a month-long Space Station Mission on Wednesday, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at 18:51 UTC several hours after the spacecraft was detached from the International Space Station to begin its homebound journey.
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The SpaceX Dragon departed the International Space Station after a one-month stay on Wednesday, en-route to a splashdown landing in the Pacific Ocean planned later in the day to return valuable scientific research to Earth.
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Experiments: Meteor Software Image Loads and UltraBay Adapter Installation [The Meteor study, going by the full name of ‘Meteor Composition
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 first stage is back on land after an eventful journey culminating in the successful high-energy return from the edge of space to a three-engine landing on the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship in the May 6 mission with the JCSat-14 communications satellite.
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Experiments: Dose Tracker [Dose Tracker uses logs kept by crew members on the frequency of medication intake before, during and
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The DART spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday, May 7, 2016 after over a decade in orbit, following a launch in April 2005.
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Experiments: Meteor Setup Review [The Meteor study, going by the full name of ‘Meteor Composition Determination,’ is the first of
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 was not only accurate when achieving another milestone first stage landing atop the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Friday morning, but also achieved a very good orbit for its passenger, the JCSat-14 communications satellite operated by Japanese telecommunications provider Sky Perfect JSAT.
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Experiments: Rodent Research 3 – Animal Transfer and Bone Densitometer Scans [Rodent Research 3, named after the sponsoring company Eli
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the night skies over Florida’s Space Coast in the early morning hours on Friday, lifting the JCSat-14 communications satellite to orbit and attempting a challenging high-energy return of the rocket’s first stage to land on the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship deployed to the Atlantic Ocean.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off in the early hours on Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, completing a flawless ascent to Geostationary Transfer Orbit to deliver the JCSat-14 communications satellite.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off in the early hours on Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, completing a flawless ascent to Geostationary Transfer Orbit to deliver the JCSat-14 communications satellite.
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Experiments: Microbial Observatory-1 – Experiment Operations [The MO-1 study will acquire air and surface samples from various locations of the
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