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  • Georges Lemaître docks to ISS

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    Two weeks after lifting off from French Guiana the final European Automated Docking Vehicle Georges Lemaître (ATV5) docked with the International Space Station today. During the two week voyage the vehicle tested different technologies before performing a successful automated docking today.  Following the docking the latches between the vehicles were successfully closed.  Over the next two…

  • Weekly Space News 6/27

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    This week in space… SpaceX causes a stir and has another delay Last Saturday SpaceX caused quite a stir on the Internet when they announced there would be no live web-cast of the Orbcomm OG2 launch attempt that evening.  A spokesperson for SpaceX said they had been planning to move away from web-casting because launches…