A rocket carrying supplies for China's new space station blasted off Saturday from an island in the South China Sea.
Space Exploration
May 29, 2021
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China launched a space rocket from sea for the first time on Wednesday, its space agency announced, the latest step in Beijing's push to become a major space power.
Space Exploration
Jun 5, 2019
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In what is an intriguing mix of past and future, an international team of researchers, including some from the University of Bonn, has stumbled upon a surprising window to the past in Kourou in French Guiana. In the clay ...
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Mar 26, 2024
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With liftoff just five days away, ESA's GOCE spacecraft - encased in the protective half-shells of the launcher fairing - has been transported from the cleanroom and installed in the launch tower at the Plesetsk ...
Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2009
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(AP) — A rocket carrying an Intelsat satellite has successfully lifted off from the oceangoing Sea Launch platform on the equator.
Space Exploration
Aug 19, 2012
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NASA's Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has selected United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo., to provide Delta II launch services for the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite ...
Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2013
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A Russian rocket carrying a US telecommunications satellite plunged into the Pacific Ocean on Friday only moments after being launched from a mobile sea platform in Moscow's latest space failure.
Space Exploration
Feb 1, 2013
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Russia has sent a European communications satellite into orbit from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, after the last launch in 2013 ended with the satellite plunging into the sea.
Space Exploration
May 27, 2014
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(Phys.org) -- NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., to launch the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Jason-3 spacecraft in December 2014 aboard a Falcon 9 v1.0 ...
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2012
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(AP)—Sea Launch AG says it has placed a communication satellite into orbit for global provider Eutelsat.
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2012
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