A flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 – the eighth of its kind to take flight – leapt of its Pacific-side launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base at sunrise on Friday to loft the fifth set of Iridium-NEXT communications satellites into orbit and take the largest constellation upgrade in history one step closer to the finish line.
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A flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from SLC-4E at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base at 14:13:51 UTC on March 30, 2018 with the fifth set of Iridium-NEXT Satellites.
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A flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from SLC-4E at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base at 14:13:51 UTC on March 30, 2018 with the fifth set of Iridium-NEXT Satellites.
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Two experienced NASA astronauts overcame adversity outside the International Space Station on Thursday in a challenging spacewalk that started late and had to be cut short.
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China launched a Long March 3B rocket on Thursday, carrying the next pair of Beidou-3 navigation satellites to join the country’s growing Global Navigation Satellite System set to reach operational strength later this year.
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Russia conducted a secretive launch out of the country’s primary military spaceport on Thursday, involving what is officially only known as a Small Experimental Satellite going by the acronym EMKA and suspected to be a former remote-sensing satellite design turned into a black project by the Russian Ministry of Defence.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle powered away from the country’s Eastern Shore on Thursday, successfully placing the GSAT-6A advanced S-Band communications satellite into orbit and introducing an upgraded engine as the first of a number of improvements coming up on India’s rockets in the coming years.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off from the country’s Eastern Shore at 11:26:00 UTC on March 29, 2018 and soared to its fifth consecutive success in a row after returning to flight in 2014.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off from the country’s Eastern Shore at 11:26:00 UTC on March 29, 2018 and soared to its fifth consecutive success in a row after returning to flight in 2014.
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Russia’s Progress MS-07 spacecraft wrapped up its cargo-delivery and trash pick-up mission at the International Space Station, undocking from the Earth-facing Pirs Module on Wednesday to head off on a four-week free flight dedicated to scientific experiments before the spacecraft will fire its engines on April 26 to set up for its fiery demise.
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A previously used Falcon 9 booster came to life at Florida’s Space Coast on Wednesday in preparation for the launch of the first U.S. Space Station resupply mission of the year, set for a Monday afternoon liftoff ahead of a two-day chase of the orbiting laboratory by the flight-proven Dragon spacecraft.
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The Atlantis CubeSat, part of the QB50 CubeSat initiative, re-entered the atmosphere on March 28, 2018 after less than one year in Low Earth Orbit, becoming the second of the QB50 series to decay from orbit after collecting data from the seldom-measured lower thermosphere.
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Iridium 23 re-entered the atmosphere on March 28, 2018 after over 20 years in orbit as part of the original Iridium Communications Constellation, a low-orbiting satellite system for global communications including voice and point-to-point data services via 66 active satellites in six orbital planes.
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India is gearing up for the country’s second space launch of the year, targeting Thursday to send a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle toward a high-energy orbital destination with the GSAT-6A government- and military-use communications satellite.
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Two veteran spacewalkers who just arrived aboard the International Space Station last week are set for a six-and-a-half-hour excursion on Thursday to install wireless communications equipment outside the orbiting laboratory to prepare for the arrival of a high-profile ecosystem remote-sensing instrument arriving later this year.
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The planned launch of the fifth set of Iridium-NEXT satellites atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is being delayed from its planned launch slot on Thursday at the request of the customer to deal with an issue with one of the ten Iridium satellites set for launch.
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NASA’s next flagship space telescope and Hubble successor is facing another significant launch delay and potential budget overruns after testing on the spacecraft fell behind schedule and a number of unforeseen problems
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