China’s Fengyun 4B weather satellite takes off aboard a Long March 3B rocket. Credit: Xinhua China launched the Fengyun 4B weather observatory June 2 aboard a Long March 3B rocket, deploying the second in a new generation of geostationary spacecraft tracking typhoons, monitoring Earth’s climate, and measuring the space environment. The Fengyun 4B satellite will …
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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy captured this photo of SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft approaching the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: Oleg Novitskiy/Roscosmos Wrapping up a two-day transit from a launch pad in Florida, a SpaceX Dragon capsule autonomously linked up with the International Space Station Saturday with more than 7,300 pounds of cargo, including new …
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A Falcon 9 rocket is test-fired early Thursday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now SpaceX ignited a Falcon 9 rocket for a 10-second test-firing early Thursday on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, clearing a pre-flight check before a mission set to blast off just after midnight Sunday with …
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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov wears an Oral spacesuit during a spacewalk Wednesday outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Two cosmonauts floated outside the International Space Station early Wednesday to wrap up preparations for detaching the two-decades-old Pirs airlock and docking compartment next month, clearing the way for …
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A Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket fires off its launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome with 36 OneWeb internet satellites. Credit: Roscosmos Launching through heavy rainfall, a Soyuz booster vaulted away from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in eastern Russia to place 36 more OneWeb internet satellites into orbit Friday, giving the London-based company a fleet of 218 spacecraft, …
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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during a Senate confirmation hearing April 21. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The Biden administration’s $24.8 billion fiscal 2022 budget request for NASA will keep the agency on track to send the the first woman and the next man to the moon as early as 2024, …
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These photos show the liftoff from Cape Canaveral and climb into space of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday. The launch carried 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit and set a new record for payload fairing reuse, with one half of the nose cone making its fifth flight. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 launcher lifted …
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One of the cameras on the Perseverance rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument took this picture of the Ingenuity helicopter April 9. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter safely landed after wobbling, suffering power spikes, and enduring velocity fluctuations on its sixth flight at Mars, officials said Wednesday. The helicopter took off May 22 on its sixth automated flight …
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Artist’s concept of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace has selected SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch the company’s first commercial lunar lander mission in 2023 with 10 NASA-sponsored research payloads. The Blue Ghost lander, which Firefly will build at its Texas manufacturing center, will aim for landing in the Mare Crisium …
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An astronaut on the International Space Station took this picture during an orbital sunrise in April 2021. Credit: NASA The Biden administration announced this week that NASA will develop a series of five Earth science satellite missions over the next decade, part of a $2.5 billion program called the Earth System Observatory to collect climate …
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