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A Long March 3B rocket lifts off with the Chinasat 2E satellite Thursday. Credit: CASC China launched a communications satellite likely designed for use by the Chinese military Thursday, keeping up a busy schedule of space missions with the country’s fourth orbital launch attempt in barely a week. The launch Thursday occurred at 12:30 p.m. …

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A Long March 6 rocket lifts off Wednesday with two small satellites. Credit: Institute of Microsatellite Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences A Chinese rocket successfully launched Wednesday with a pair of small communications satellites reportedly linked to a secretive German company. The Chinese institute that built the satellites said they will test laser …

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File photo of a Hyperbola 1 rocket undergoing launch preparations. Credit: i-Space The launch of a solid-fueled rocket developed by the Chinese commercial space firm iSpace failed Tuesday, the second launch failure in three orbital attempts by the startup company, Chinese state media said. A Hyperbola 1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan launch base …

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A Long March 2D rocket lifts off with the Tianhui 1-04 spacecraft. Credit: Xinhua China successfully launched a Long March 2D rocket July 29 with a Tianhui military satellite on a mission to collect data for maps and land surveys. China’s largest state-owned space program contractor said the Tianhui 1-04 satellite launched at 0401 GMT …

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A technician at Rocket Lab’s launch base in New Zealand works with an Electron booster. Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab is set to launch a small U.S. military technology demonstration satellite from New Zealand Thursday on the company’s first flight since a second stage failure doomed a commercial mission in May. The Air Force Research …

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A Long March 2C rocket lifts off with three more Yaogan 30 spy satellites for the Chinese military. Credit: Xinhua China launched another trio of Yaogan 30 military spy satellites July 19, bringing to 30 the number of similar Chinese spacecraft shot into orbit since 2017 on suspected naval surveillance missions. A Long March 2C …

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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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