A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket lifts of from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 on April 18, 2017 with the S.S. John Glenn, Orbital ATK’s seventh operational Cygnus cargo spacecraft
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A critical science-enabling cargo delivery to the International Space Station was successfully sent on its way on Tuesday when a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rumbled away from Florida’s Cape Canaveral to place the Cygnus cargo spacecraft into orbit.
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An Atlas V rocket is standing tall atop its launch pad at Florida’s Space Coast in preparation for liftoff on Tuesday with Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo ship
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolls out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 on April 17, 2017 in preparation for the launch of Orbital ATK’s seventh operational Cygnus resupply craft
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China’s Long March 7 rocket was moved to its launch pad on Hainan Island on Monday for the country’s first orbital logistics mission to prove critical technologies for the upcoming Chinese Space Station (CSS) that will begin deployment in 2018 to build a permanent Chinese outpost in orbit.
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Russia’s Soyuz rocket emerged from its assembly facility on Monday and rolled to the historic Site 1/5 launch complex at the Baikonur Cosmodrome from where it will blast off later this week with a two-man crew headed to the International Space Station.
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Russia’s Soyuz FG rocket completes an early morning rollout to the historic Site 1/5 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 17, 2017 in preparation for liftoff with the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft and two Space Station crew members.
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Russia’s Soyuz FG rocket completes assembly at the MIK Launcher Integration Facility in preparation for the launch of the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft to the International Space Station with a two-man crew.
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Russia’s Soyuz FG rocket completes an early morning rollout to the historic Site 1/5 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 17, 2017 in preparation for liftoff with the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft and two Space Station crew members.
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The repeatedly-delayed launch of Orbital ATK’s seventh operational Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station has been cemented for next Tuesday after launch services provider United Launch Alliance completed a clean Launch Readiness Review
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Space-Track.org – the public outlet of data from the Joint Space Operations Center – has been experiencing persistent issues including an interruption of Tracking and Impact Prediction (TIP) Messages that provide the most accurate re-entry estimates.
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China’s Long March 3B rocket blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Wednesday, lofting into orbit the country’s first high-throughput communications satellite that is set for an experimental mission to test out electric propulsion and laser communications.
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Two Russian Cosmonauts and an American Astronaut parachuted to a safe landing aboard their Soyuz spacecraft, safely touching down after circling the Earth 2,768 times over a mission of 173 days.
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Photographers captured spectacular views of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft touching down under its parachute to return three ISS residents to Earth after a half-year stay in space.
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Returning from the International Space Station, Soyuz MS-02 with Sergei Ryzhikov, Andrei Borisenko and Shane Kimbrough made an on-target landing in the Kazakh steppe in the afternoon hours on Monday, marking the end of a 118-million-Kilometer journey.
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Three International Space Station crew members are on their way back to Earth after undocking from the orbiting laboratory early on Monday, set to parachute to a late afternoon landing in Kazakhstan to close out a mission of 173 days.
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A three-man crew from Russia and the United States is set to return from a 173-day mission aboard the International Space Station on Monday, aiming for a parachute-assisted landing in the Kazakh steppe aboard their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft.
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