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SpaceX Launches AsiaSat-8 satellite
Following a slow start to the year SpaceX has now launched the first of two payloads this month for AsiaSat, With less than a minute left in the original countdown this morning an abort was called, however due to the extended launch window they were able to analyze and resolve the issue and successfully lifted…
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The Little Rover that could
This week the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity broke the off-world driving record previously held by the Soviet Union’s Lunokhod 2 rover. Opportunity which has been operating on the surface of Mars for 10 years, 6 months has now traveled more than 25.01 miles. Opportunity and it’s twin Spirit were originally expected to last 90 sol’s…
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Launch of Progress M-24M (56P)
The first of two launches scheduled for today was completed successfully when the Soyuz rocket placed the Progress M-24M spacecraft in orbit to begin it’s six hour journey to the International Space Station. Once in orbit the spacecraft deployed it’s solar arrays and antenna’s before firing its engines to being travelling to the station. Update…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 return video
SpaceX have posted a video of the Orbcomm first stage returning to earth after the mission, you can clearly see the engine firings during the return as well as the landing legs deploying. Another great step towards the goal of having re-usable rockets in the future.
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Antares launches Cygnus for Orb2 mission
This afternoon an Orbital Sciences Antares Rocket launched the SS Janice Voss Cygnus spacecraft to orbit to begin it’s mission to the International Space Station. The launch, which had been delayed several times due to investigations into a failure of one of the AJ26 engines used by Antares during it’s testing cycle and due…
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Weekly Space News moving
I am moving the Week Space News blog posts to Paper.li, most of the content that was published each week was the result of tweets that I had already posted. By moving to Paper.li it will automatically publish those tweets. Here is a sample of the paper, Weekly Space News, it will be updated each week…
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The Dragon has been captured
Following the successful launch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft a number of days of testing culminated in the successful capture and birthing of Dragon at the space station. Below are a number of pictures captured by NASA and the Astronauts of Dragon as it arrived.
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Liftoff of Falcon 9 with Dragon
This morning SpaceX successfully launched their latest Falcon 9 witth Dragon towards the international space station. Following an aborted launch on Saturday that was traced back to a faulty value on engine 5 SpaceX successfully fixed, validated and prepared for launch this morning. After the 9 minute ride to orbit which was performed flawlessly by…