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Japan rocket ferrying supplies to space station

(AP) -- A Japanese rocket carrying supplies for the International Space Station successfully lifted off from a remote island Saturday on a mission designed to help fill a hole left by the retirement of NASA's space shuttle ...

NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun's inner workings in unprecedented detail. ...

Japan to develop midair rocket-launch system

The government has launched a project to develop a midair rocket-launching system that can place satellites in orbit, it has been learned.

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