SpaceX achieved another milestone on Friday, successfully recovering a Falcon 9 first stage at sea after dispatching the rocket’s second stage and Dragon spacecraft on their way to orbit for a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rumbled into the skies over Florida’s Space Coast on Friday, lifting the Dragon spacecraft into orbit for its return to the International Space Station for its first mission after a launch failure in 2015.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket is counting down to an afternoon liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast at 4:43 p.m. on Friday, 20:43 UTC to mark the return of the Dragon Spacecraft to the International Space Station after a stand-down of nine months.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket is counting down to an afternoon liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast at 4:43 p.m. on Friday, 20:43 UTC to mark the return of the Dragon Spacecraft to the International Space Station after a stand-down of nine months.
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Experiments: METEOR Troubleshooting – Issues arose with the METEOR payload software and could not be solved with initial troubleshooting steps.
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Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System (MARES) Exercise Session – [MARES uses an adjustable chair an restraint system, a pantograph
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket tasked with sending the company’s Dragon spacecraft on its Return to Flight Mission completed a Static Fire Test on Tuesday, one of the final milestones ahead of Friday’s planned liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast.
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China’s Long March 2D rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 18:00 UTC on Tuesday, carrying the Shijian-10 research satellite to orbit.
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The Soyuz rocket stage involved in the successful launch of the Progress MS-02 cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station re-entered Sunday morning after two and a half days in orbit.
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Experiments: Rodent Research-3 (RR-3) Procedures Review and Training [Rodent Research 3, named after the sponsoring company Eli Lilly and Co.,
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China is set to launch the Shijian-10 recoverable satellite to complete a series of experiments in space before returning them to Earth in a parachute-assisted landing after a 15-day mission.
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Experiments: Protein Crystal Growth (PCG) [PCG exploits the novel environment aboard ISS for the study of protein crystallization in the
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard reusable suborbital launch vehicle successfully flew to the edge of space again on Saturday and made a safe propulsive landing at its Texas launch site.
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The International Space Station received a fresh batch of supplies on Saturday when the Progress MS-02 spacecraft made a successful docking to the Station’s aft docking port, arriving for a stay of six and a half months and bringing with it 2,425 Kilograms of fuel, water and supplies for ISS and its six resident crew members.
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Cautious optimism turned to outright pessimism in the last days after new data and observation reports emerged for Japan’s Hitomi X-Ray Observatory following its serious on-board anomaly last Saturday.
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Experiments: Strata-I Payload Experiment – Solid State Power Control Module (SSPCM) channel for Express Rack 8 suffered an overcurrent trip
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The launch of the Progress MS-02 cargo resupply craft on Thursday was photographed by the crew of the International Space Station observing the ascending rocket from the Cupola.
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