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A European Startup’s Spacecraft Made It to Orbit. Now It’s Lost at Sea
The Exploration Company lost contact with its Mission Possible vehicle a few minutes before touchdown in the ocean.
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Rocket Lab to launch European navigation tech demo satellites
Rocket Lab will launch a pair of European navigation technology demonstration satellites, as Europe again is forced to look ...
International Space Station welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the International Space Station on ...
The European Space Agency has given a surprising timescale for when it thinks humans will live on mars
The European Space Agency (ESA) has provided an interesting prediction for when humans will be packing up and leaving Earth ...
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Five benefits Africa’s new space agency can deliver
Africa’s new space agency has an important role to play in coordinating satellite data and boosting connectivity.
Rocket Lab to Launch Electron Mission for European Space Agency’s Next-Generation Navigation System
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) ("Rocket Lab" or the "Company"), a global leader in launch services and space systems, ...
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Space Selfies & DJing A Party From Orbit – How Astronaut Luca Parmitano Brought Space To Earth
Parmitano describes the difference between being in the ISS and on a spacewalk as the difference between experiencing a tropical reef in a large aquarium or scuba diving. It is a whole different feel ...
A fake solar eclipse? European satellites photograph ‘eclipse-making’ mission
What does an artificial eclipse look like? One space agency's satellites recently accomplished this task as part of a mission ...
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European Space Agency joins forces with Blue Origin for future low-Earth orbit access
At present, the International Space Station (ISS) has been humanity’s orbiting laboratory. But its planned retirement is ...