Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket thundered into the afternoon skies over the Guiana Space Center on Thursday, embarking on a heavy-lift mission to haul a pair of communications satellites into orbit for Brazil and South Korea.
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The Space Station Dextre Robot takes on its role as ISS Electrician, tasked with replacing an external circuit breaker box that had tripped open early in April and could not be closed via remote commanding.
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Sped-up video of robotic work outside the Japanese Experiment Module on April 28, 2017 covering the installation of the NanoRacks External Platform (NREP), starting its second mission to expose experiments to the space environment.
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India is gearing up for the country’s second orbital space launch of the year on Friday, involving a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk.II delivering the GSAT-9 communications satellite to orbit
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket rolled out to its French Guiana launch pad on Wednesday for a long-delayed dual-satellite delivery that was held up for over a month by a general strike in the small French department that caused operations at the space base to grind to a complete halt.
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Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo, the VSS Unity, completed its first feather flight on Monday out of Mojave Air and Space Port to mark another major step on the path toward powered test flights later this year to finish qualifying the sub-orbital space plane for commercial missions with paying customers.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered away from Florida’s Space Coast on Monday on its first top-secret satellite delivery for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, operator of the country’s spy satellite fleet.
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Flight parameters extracted from the SpaceX launch broadcast for the entirety for the first stage’s round trip journey.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday, May 1st, 2017 on a classified mission to deliver the NROL-76 satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
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A spent rocket body from a 2001 Tsiklon-3 launch re-entered the atmosphere on April 27, 2017 after sixteen years in orbit.
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