File photo of two Electron rockets on Rocket Lab’s two launch pads in New Zealand. Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab’s next mission for the National Reconnaissance Office — the second of two back-to-back launches for the U.S. spy satellite agency — has been postponed to complete a software update on the classified payload, the NRO …
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The Long March 5B rocket slated to launch the Wentian module to China’s space station emerges from its assembly building Monday at the Wenchang launch base on Hainan Island. Credit: CMSE China moved a heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket to its launch pad Monday in preparation for liftoff this weekend with a 22-ton module for …
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A Long March 2C rocket lifts off from a fog-enshrouded launch pad at the Taiyuan space center. Credit: CASC Two Earth observation satellites for China Siwei, a state-owned company aimed at the commercial remote sensing market, launched Friday on a Long March 2C rocket into an orbit more than 300 miles (490 kilometers) above Earth. …
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Image credit: rtbilder / Shutterstock.com By Conn Hastings, science writer Honeybees use a sophisticated dance to tell their sisters about the location of nearby flowers. This phenomenon forms the inspiration for a form of robot-robot communication that does not rely on digital networks. A recent study presents a simple technique whereby robots view and interpret …
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SpaceX launched 53 more Starlink internet satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now Fifty-three more Starlink internet satellites thundered into orbit from Cape Canaveral atop a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday on SpaceX’s 31st launch of the year, tying the company’s number of missions for all of 2021 and maintaining …
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Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Starlink 4-22 mission launched SpaceX’s next batch of 53 Starlink broadband satellites. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at …
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Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Starlink 4-22 mission launched SpaceX’s next batch of 53 Starlink broadband satellites. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is counting down to launch from Cape Canaveral …
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A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule loaded with more than 5,800 pounds of supplies and experiments is set to dock with the International Space Station at 11:20 a.m. EDT (1520 GMT) Saturday, delivering a NASA instrument to study the mineral content of dust storms and several small CubeSats. The unpiloted supply ship launched Thursday evening from …
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A stack of Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket during a recent launch. Credit: SpaceX Forecasters predict a 50-50 chance of good weather at Cape Canaveral for launch of SpaceX’s next batch of Starlink internet satellites Sunday on a Falcon 9 rocket. Fifty-three more Starlink internet satellites are packed inside the nose cone of …
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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of a previous meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Rogozin. Credit: Kremlin Dmitry Rogozin, the bellicose director of the Russian space agency Roscosmos who has railed against NASA and its western space allies over sanctions imposed in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, …
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