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China’s commercial Ceres launcher delivers five satellites into orbit

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Galactic Energy’s second Ceres rocket blasts off from the Jiuquan space base. Credit: Galactic Energy A solid-fueled Ceres satellite launcher developed to serve China’s burgeoning commercially-focused smallsat market successfully deployed five spacecraft into orbit Dec. 7, making the new Chinese rocket two-for-two since its debut last year. The Ceres 1 rocket took off from the …

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Webb telescope mounted on top of Ariane 5 rocket in French Guiana

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The James Webb Space Telescope is lifted on top of its Ariane 5 launcher inside the final assembly building in French Guiana. Credit: ESA-Manuel Pedoussaut The nearly $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, suspended under a crane with four cables, was raised atop an Ariane 5 launcher Saturday inside a vertical hangar in French Guiana, …

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Interview with Huy Ha and Shuran Song: CoRL 2021 best system paper award winners

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Congratulations to Huy Ha and Shuran Song who have won the CoRL 2021 best system paper award! Their work, FlingBot: the unreasonable effectiveness of dynamic manipulations for cloth unfolding, was highly praised by the judging committee. “To me, this paper constitutes the most impressive account of both simulated and real-world cloth manipulation to date.”, commented …

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Michael Strahan, Alan Shepard’s daughter and four others rocket into space

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin’s founder, pins the company’s astronaut wings on Laura Shepard Chesley as Michael Strahan and other crewmates look on. Credit: Blue Origin Sixty years after her father became the first American in space, Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, rocketed out of …

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Proton rocket to launch two Russian broadcasting satellites Monday

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Two Russian telecommunications satellites are ready to ride a Proton rocket and Breeze M upper stage into a high-altitude orbit after launch Monday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The mission is set for liftoff at 7:07 a.m. EST (1207 GMT) Monday, and will last 18 hours from launch through separation of the final spacecraft, one of …

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SpaceX launches NASA mission to study dead stars

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography SpaceX launched a refrigerator-sized NASA X-ray observatory from Kennedy Space Center into an unusual orbit hugging the equator Thursday, beginning a $214 million mission to study black holes and super-compact neutron stars. The successful launch …

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Webb telescope fueled for flight, ready for lifting atop launcher

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The James Webb Space Telescope is loaded with toxic propellants by technicians wearing protective self-contained suits. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/P. Piron A crane at the Guiana Space Center in South America will hoist the nearly $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope more than 15 stories above the floor of a rocket assembly hangar this weekend to position …

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Watch live: Alan Shepard’s daughter, Micheal Strahan among six launching to space Saturday

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Sixty years after NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space, his oldest daughter plans to blast off Saturday on a sub-orbital flight of her own, joining former NFL star and TV host Michael Strahan, two entrepreneurs and a father-and-son duo aboard a Blue Origin New …

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BlackSky continues rapid-fire launch campaign with Rocket Lab mission

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An Electron rocket fires off its launch pad in New Zealand at 7:02 p.m. EST (0002 GMT) with two BlackSky optical Earth imaging satellites. Credit: Rocket Lab Two more BlackSky high-resolution optical remote sensing satellites rode a Rocket Lab Electron launcher into orbit Wednesday from New Zealand, the second mission for Rocket Lab in three …

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Atlas 5 rocket launches Space Force tech demo satellites on marathon mission

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United Launch Alliance’s 90th Atlas 5 rocket lifts off with the Space Force’s STP-3 mission. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now United Launch Alliance deployed two U.S. Space Force technology demonstration satellites into an on-target orbit more than 22,000 miles over the equator Tuesday after a booming blastoff before dawn from Cape Canaveral on an …

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