An Atlas V rocket will blast off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday to send the WorldView-4 Earth-imaging satellite into orbit for commercial operator DigitalGlobe.
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China successfully placed its mini Space Station Tiangong-2 into orbit on Thursday after a flawless nighttime launch by its Long March 2F carrier rocket.
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Europe’s Vega rocket has been cleared for a nighttime liftoff from the Guiana Space Center Thursday night, lifting into orbit the first high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite for Peru plus four small-sized Earth observation satellite operated by Google subsidiary Terra Bella.
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China’s second Tiangong Space Laboratory will head into orbit on Thursday to continue building a path toward a large, long-duration Space Station to begin deployment toward the end of this decade.
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United Launch Alliance announced on Tuesday an initiative that could facilitate future launches on the company’s rockets within three months of an order being placed – the fastest Order-to-Launch Service in the industry, hoped to give the Colorado-based company an edge on the competitive launch market.
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Israel launched an advanced reconnaissance satellite into orbit on Tuesday to expand the country’s optical intelligence-gathering capabilities.
Read morePlanet Labs’ Flock 2B-14 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on September 12, 2016 after 11 months in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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International Launch Services and rocket-builder Khrunichev presented designs of modified versions of their Proton launch vehicle on Tuesday, designed to reduce the cost for launching medium- and light-class commercial communications satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Blue Origin introduced its planned ‘New Glenn’ Reusable Orbital Launch Vehicle to the world on Monday, outlining plans to launch the 95-meter tall rocket for the first time before the end of this decade.
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Top-secret documents obtained by the online publication ‘The Intercept’ from NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden have lifted the veil on one of America’s most enigmatic satellite missions of recent years
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity took flight for the first time this week in a captive carry test on the company’s path to powered test flights and ultimately tourist flights to the edge of space aboard the rocket-powered space plane.
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An Ariane 5 Solid Rocket Booster fired up this week at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana to verify the quality of Ariane SRB production and test new components to the implemented on the booster for Ariane 5 as well as Europe’s small Vega rocket.
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Over a week has passed since the dramatic explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral and rocket manufacturer and operator SpaceX remains largely in the dark on what may have caused the destructive event.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer took the first leap in a long journey through the solar system on Thursday, lifting off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket on a long-awaited mission to touch an asteroid to answer the long standing question on the origins life.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer took the first leap in a long journey through the solar system on Thursday, lifting off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket on a long-awaited mission to touch an asteroid to answer the long standing question on the origins life.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer took the first leap in a long journey through the solar system on Thursday, lifting off
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Stunning photos show India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasting off from India’s east coast and soaring into clear skies to deliver the INSAT-3DR meteo sat to orbit.
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