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An Antares rocket, one of two launchers developed with NASA backing to fly cargo capsules to the International Space Station, blasted off on its debut mission on Sunday, successfully depositing a dummy spacecraft into orbit. ->
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on Thursday and headed toward the International Space Station, a trip that is expected to take less than six hours, compared to the usual two-day voyage. ->
"This isn't the kind of rocket you take to a local park and start throwing up in the air," says Neil Milburn, the Vice President of Program Management for Armadillo Aerospace. "We needed a bloody big desert with nothing else around." That's why Milburn's company, Armadillo Aerospace, chose New Mexi...
Artist impression of the Venus Express spacecraft separating from the Soyuz Fregat upper stage rocket after launch (ESA) The cosmos threw a curve ball at us, but a near-Earth object (NEO) called 2010 AL30 missed by over 80,000 miles. Although the object was too small to cause any damage, if it did ...
A British Ph.D. student and colleagues want to wake up an old satellite, one that was launched in 1971 and hasn't transmitted since 1996.
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