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SpaceX is about to begin launching the next series of Starlink satellites

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A Starlink ground terminal. Credit: SpaceX After going through the month of July with no launches, SpaceX is scheduled to resume missions in August with Falcon 9 rocket flights from California and Florida to begin deploying Starlink internet satellites into new orbits. SpaceX is gearing up for at least two Starlink launches next month, beginning …

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Watch live: Russia’s Pirs module set to depart space station today

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Wrapping up nearly 20 years of service as a docking port and airlock, Russia’s Pirs module is set to depart the International Space Station Monday under tow from a Progress supply ship, heading for a destructive re-entry in Earth’s atmosphere to clear the way for arrival of a larger science lab later this week. Russia’s …

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RO-MAN 2021 Roboethics Competition: Bringing ethical robots into the home

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In 1984, Heathkit presented HERO Jr. as the first robot that could be used in households to perform a variety of tasks, such as guarding people’s homes, setting reminders, and even playing games. Following this development, many companies launched affordable “smart robots” that could be used within the household. Some of these technologies, like Google …

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NASA clears Boeing Starliner for launch on second unpiloted test flight

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 17, 2021. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s second Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) …

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Russian science lab heads for International Space Station

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated July 22 with Pirs undocking delay. A Proton rocket takes off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday with Russia’s Nauka science lab. Credit: Roscosmos The International Space Station is set to receive its biggest expansion in more than a decade after the launch of a Russian research lab and a European robotic arm …

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Mars rover gearing up for first sample collection work

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A light-colored “paver stone” like the ones seen in this mosaic will be the likely target for first sampling by the Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Five months after landing on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover is gearing up to collect its first core sample next month, mission managers said …

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SpaceX crew capsule relocated outside space station before Boeing mission

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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft moves in for docking at the zenith port on the space station’s Harmony module Wednesday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Four astronauts rode a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for a flight from one International Space Station docking port to another Wednesday, clearing the way for arrival of a Boeing Starliner crew ferry …

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Bezos flies to space on Blue Origin’s first crew launch

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Oliver Daemen, Jeff Bezos, Wally Funk, and Mark Bezos pose with the New Shepard booster that carried them to space Tuesday. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took his brother, a pioneering female pilot, and an 18-year-old Dutch student on an automated flight to the edge of space Tuesday, completing a on a …

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Russian lab module set for launch to space station Wednesday

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Russia’s Nauka module undergoes launch preparations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos A Russian science module in development for more than 20 years is set for liftoff Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on top of a Proton rocket, kicking off an eight-day flight to the International Space Station to boost the …

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