Blue Origin has broken ground for its future manufacturing facility outside the gates of Florida’s Kennedy Space Center where the company will construct its future orbital launch vehicles to be launched from Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Three spacemen swapped the relative comforts of the International Space Station for the confined Soyuz capsule to parachute back to Earth Saturday morning, aiming for a landing in the Kazakh steppe.
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China’s Long March 4B rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Monday, carrying into orbit the Ziyuan-3-02 Earth Observation satellite and a pair of microsatellites for Argentina.
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The Eutelsat 65 West A Communications Satellite received a smooth ride by its Ariane 5 launch vehicle, arriving in a relatively accurate orbit to begin a ten-day climb into Geostationary Orbit.
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The Russian Volga Upper Stage and Kanopus ST submarine-tracking satellite are rapidly approaching an untargeted destructive re-entry after completing a significant orbit-lowering maneuver in response to the failed separation of the satellite following its arrival in a 690-Kilometer orbit on Saturday.
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The mysterious object known as WT1190F met its fiery demise over the Indian Ocean on Friday the 13th after creating a media buzz across the Internet.
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A Chinese Long March 3B rocket is set for liftoff from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at around 16:16 UTC on Friday, past midnight on Saturday local time, embarking on a mission to deliver the APStar-9 satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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An international crew of three started a two-day journey to the International Space Station, safely launching into orbit atop a Soyuz FG rocket on Wednesday. Aboard Soyuz TMA-18M, veteran Commander Sergei Volkov and rookie space fliers Andreas Mogensen and Aidyn Aimbetov blasted off at 4:37 UTC from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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Originally posted on September 1 An international crew of three started a two-day journey to the International Space Station, safely
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