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SpaceX's new rocket scores big satellite launch contract![]() ![]() Washington (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2018 lon Musk's SpaceX just won a major $130 million contract to launch a US Air Force satellite into orbit, the military branch announced Friday. The contract, which is the fifth awarded under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, will put an Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)-52 satellite into orbit in fiscal year 2020, Los Angeles Air Force Base announced Thursday. Further details about the satellite remain classified. The Falcon Heavy rocket that will carry the payload will launch from ... read more |
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![]() Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, will send a satellite into orbit atop its Falcon Heavy rocket in 2020, the U.S. Air Force announced on Thursday. ... more ![]() ![]() Houston TX (AFNS) Jun 25, 2018 Surrounded by media representatives and audience members, Col. Nick Hague, NASA astronaut, and Alexey Ovchinin, Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut, discussed their upcoming trip to space during a news conf ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 As part of the agency's Exploration Campaign, NASA's Gateway will become the orbital outpost for robotic and human exploration operations in deep space. Built with commercial and international partn ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2018 The dust storm on Mars is now a Planet-encircling Dust Event (PEDE). It shows no indication of receding at this time. Since the last contact with the rover on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), it is l ... more |
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![]() Portsmouth UK (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 An international team of astronomers have made the most precise test of gravity outside our own solar system. By combining data taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southe ... more ![]() ![]() Surrey UK (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 A team of international astrophysicists may have found a solution to a problem that has perplexed scientists for more than 50 years: why are the stars in globular clusters made of material different ... more ![]() ![]() Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 A galaxy with at least one active supermassive black hole - named OJ 287 - has caused many irritations and questions in the past. The emitted radiation of this object spans a wide range - from the r ... more ![]() ![]() West Lafayette, IN (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 A new space traffic management policy signed by President Donald Trump could help prevent thousands of space objects from colliding, but sufficient technical solutions are lacking, says Carolin Frue ... more ![]() ![]() Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 Using the MUSE instrument on ESO's VLT , a team led by Thomas Collett from the University of Portsmouth in the UK first calculated the mass of ESO 325-G004 by measuring the movement of stars within ... more |
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![]() ![]() Prolific sea-observing satellite Jason-2 turns 10 ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 A new NASA study explains why the Tracy and Heilprin glaciers, which flow side by side into Inglefield Gulf in northwest Greenland, are melting at radically different rates. Using ocean data f ... more ![]() |
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![]() Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2018 This week marks 20 years since the manifesto was signed that gave rise to Europe's Copernicus environmental programme. With seven Sentinel satellites already in orbit delivering terabytes of data ev ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for the Defense Department to exercise options to support Aegis combat system. ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo (AFP) June 22, 2018 Japan is suspending evacuation drills simulating a North Korean missile attack after historic talks between Washington and Pyongyang, its top government spokesman said Friday. ... more ![]() ![]() Houston TX (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 A tool that has helped guide sailors across oceans for centuries is now being tested aboard the International Space Station as a potential emergency navigation tool for guiding future spacecraft acr ... more ![]() ![]() Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 21, 2018 Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe. Ordinary matter, or "baryons," make up all physical objects ... more |
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Astronaut Sally Ride's legacy of encouraging young women to embrace science and engineering College Station TX (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Air Force contracts SpaceX for satellite launch Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Opportunity sleeps during a planet-encircling dust storm Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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China confirms reception of data from Gaofen-6 satellite Beijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Forget Galileo - UK space sector should look to young stars instead London, UK (SPX) Jun 19, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Futuristic data storage Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Hunting molecules to find new planets Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Charon at 40: four decades of discovery on Pluto's largest moon Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Prolific sea-observing satellite Jason-2 turns 10 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Russia launches Soyuz-21b with Glonass-M navigation satellite Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 19, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Queqiao satellite the bridge to China's lunar exploration Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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NASA, federal agencies aim to be better prepared for near-Earth objects Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Copernicus 20 years on Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Sounding rocket takes a second look at the sun Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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The Rosetta stone of active galactic nuclei deciphered Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Study offers best evidence yet of an intermediate-mass black hole Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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