SpaceX completed a Static Fire Test with its Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday in advance of the company’s second launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A involving the EchoStar 23 communications satellite.
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The Lemur-2 BRIDGEMAN Satellite, part of Spire Global’s CubeSat Constellation, re-entered the atmosphere on March 8, 2017 after over eight months in orbit collecting global ship-tracking data and measuring atmospheric parameters.
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The Lemur-2 CUBECHEESE Satellite, part of Spire Global’s CubeSat Constellation, re-entered the atmosphere on March 6, 2017 after eight months in orbit collecting global ship-tracking data and measuring atmospheric parameters.
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Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos announced new details about the company’s upcoming New Glenn Launch Vehicle on Tuesday, speaking at the Satellite 2017 conference in Washington D.C.
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Vega – the smallest in Europe’s line of launch vehicle – lit up the night skies over the edge of the Amazon on Monday, thundering off to lift the newest member in the Copernicus constellation to orbit, taking the pulse of an ever-changing planet with a series of active observation posts circling the Earth.
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Europe’s Vega rocket blasted off from the ZLV launch site at the Guiana Space Center at 1:49 UTC on March 7, 2017, racing into the night skies over the space base to lift the Sentinel-2B satellite into orbit for the European Copernicus Program tasked with the collection of complete, timely and accurate Earth observation parameters.
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Vega – the smallest in Europe’s line of launch vehicles – lit up the night skies over the edge of the Amazon on Monday, thundering off to lift the newest member in the Copernicus constellation to orbit, taking the pulse of an ever-changing planet with a series of active observation posts circling the Earth.
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Five small CubeSats were deployed from the International Space Station on Monday via NanoRacks’ commercial deployment mechanism that allows ISS to serve as an orbital launch pad for educational and commercial satellite missions of short duration.
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Europe’s Copernicus Earth Observation Constellation will welcome its newest member Monday night when the Sentinel-2B satellite blasts off from the Guiana Space Center atop a Vega Rocket, blazing into orbit to cut in half the revisit time for multispectral images.
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China is progressing toward the country’s first logistics mission set for liftoff in April to demonstrate a critical component of the long-term operation of China’s Space Station CSS that is being readied to begin deployment in 2018
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Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft in orbit around Venus has suspended operating two of its five scientific cameras after the craft’s electronics units showed considerable degradation in December, just one year after the mission’s arrival at Venus following an extended odyssey through the solar system.
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NASA selected United Launch Alliance and its Atlas V rocket for the launch of the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) mission for operation by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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Satellite trackers successfully pin-pointed the NROL-79 payload dispatched to orbit this week by an Atlas V rocket, confirming its identity as a pair of NOSS spacecraft tasked with tracking foreign ships and aircraft on a global scale, delivering critical information for general awareness and tactical military planning.
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This timelapse video of robotic activities underway aboard the International Space Station February 26 through 28 shows the first act of Dragon SpX-10 external cargo operations.
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China carried out a secretive space launch Thursday night, debuting a new solid-fueled launch vehicle known as Kaituozhe-2 launching an experimental satellite into orbit.
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NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft – orbiting Mars in a highly elliptical orbit to explore how the planet lost most of its atmosphere – had to fire its thrusters this weeks to steer clear of a collision with Mars moon Phobos on March 6.
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Virgin’s LauncherOne air-launched space rocket is now operated under its own company, Virgin Orbit, the firm announced on Thursday.
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