Search results for "spacecraft"
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2.4KFutureChina Launches Lunar Probe Chang’e-4
China launched the Chang’e-4 mission on December 7th and successfully managed to send the spacecraft into the lunar transfer orbit. The probe...
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2.5KFutureFalcon 9 Rocket Crashes After Successful ISS Cargo Delivery
SpaceX has been successfully landing its rockets back to base since 2015. After managing to break no less than four records just a...
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5.8KVehiclesInSight Mars Landing Successful: The Lander Sends Back A Selfie
NASA has successfully landed the InSight lander on Mars yesterday, after a seven-minute plunge to the surface of the planet, on a...
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2.7KMiscNASA Plans To Start A Workplace Safety Review at SpaceX
Elon Musk has had a tumultuous year to say the least and now, to add up to the pile of what made...
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1.8KFutureNASA’s Kepler Sings Its Swansong With Last Set Of Commands
This is it, guys: after having run out of fuel last month, NASA’s Earth Kepler team has beamed the final commands to...
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1.9KFutureSpaceX One Launch Away From “Most Launches In A Year” Record
Update: The Es’hail-2 satellite was successfully launched after the Falcon 9 lifted off from the Florida Kennedy Space Center at 15:46 Eastern...
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1.9KFutureNASA to Bring Mars Landing to Viewers All Around the World
NASA’s InSight lander is scheduled for touch down on Mars on November 26 at 3 p.m EST. This time, viewers everywhere can...
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2.6KFutureNASA’s Parker Solar Probe Survives First Encounter With The Burning Giant
NASA sent the Parker Solar Probe into space in August. In September it had already delivered its First Light image and now,...
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2.8KFutureNASA Probe Captures Clear Shot Of Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security Regolith Explorer) spacecraft was launched over two years ago, in September 2016 with the...
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4.0KFutureGoodbye Kepler: NASA Retires The Space Telescope That Has “Exceeded All Expectations”
When the Kepler Telescope was launched back in 2009, it was regarded as an engineering marvel and it was equipped with what...
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2.3KMiscVirgin Galactic: ‘We Should be In Space In Weeks, Not Months’
According to British billionaire Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic is ‘tantalizingly close’ to its very first trip to space. Richard Branson has founded...
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4.2KFutureCassini’s Final Dive Revealed Intriguing Data About Saturn’s Ring ‘Rain’
The Cassini spacecraft has spent a grand total of 13 years studying both Saturn and its moons and, when it finally ran...
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2.5KFutureSuspected Exomoon Spotted 8,000 Light-Years Away
According to NASA, the Kepler and Hubble space telescopes have found evidence of a satellite that is orbiting exoplanet Kepler-1625b. Exoplanets are...
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3.4KFutureStar Trek Fan? Lenovo’s Got You Covered With An Actual Enterprise-Shaped PC
During the annual Tech World Conference that took place in Beijing, Lenovo went all out and revealed a new PC design that...
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11.0KFutureA World First: Two Japanese Rovers Land Successfully On Moving Asteroid
Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 was launched from Earth back in November 2014, backpacking on a H-IIA rocket, in an attempt to arrive in the...
