Warming up for the sun
Today, the Solar Orbiter control team is simulating launch for the penultimate time, before the sun-seeking spacecraft lifts-off for real.
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Jan 21, 2020
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Astronaut completes spacewalk without helmet camera, lights (Update)
Spacewalking astronauts had to make do with fewer lights and camera views from one helmet Wednesday while performing critical battery work outside the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2020
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Boeing capsule returns to Earth after aborted space mission (Update)
Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that could hold up the company's effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year.
Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2019
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Early trouble for Boeing Starliner on key space mission
Boeing launched its Starliner capsule Friday on a crewless eight-day journey to the International Space Station and back, but the mission ran into early trouble with its orbit procedure.
Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2019
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Video: ESA's short film, 'The Burn'
ESA's short film, The Burn, takes us into the heart of Europe's mission control during a critical moment in the life of a future mission.
Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2019
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SN Now: The final installment of SCaN Now
NASA satellites, no matter the destination, have to communicate their data to mission control and scientists on Earth. These missions capture extraordinary data that make communications an essential part of each mission: ...
Space Exploration
Dec 09, 2019
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SpaceX delivers 'mighty mice,' worms, robot to space station
SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday, dropping off super muscular "mighty mice," pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot.
Space Exploration
Dec 08, 2019
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Spacewalking astronauts add new pumps to cosmic detector
Spacewalking astronauts installed new pumps on a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Monday in a bid to extend its scientific life.
Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2019
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Spacewalking astronauts slice into cosmic ray detector (Update)
Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Friday for the second week in a row to repair a cosmic ray detector, this time actually cutting into the $2 billion instrument.
Space Exploration
Nov 22, 2019
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Astronauts start spacewalk series to fix cosmic ray detector
Astronauts began an extraordinarily complicated series of spacewalks Friday to fix a cosmic ray detector at the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2019
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