SpaceX says rocket worked fine as spy satellite reported lost
MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- A SpaceX rocket worked fine in its weekend launch of a secretive government satellite, named…
8 years ago
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Russia restores contact with Angolan satellite
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Russian specialists on Friday said they have restored communication with Angosat-1, the first national satellite it…
8 years ago
McCandless, first astronaut to fly untethered, dies at age 80
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Bruce McCandless, an astronaut who was the first to fly untethered from his spacecraft…
9 years ago
NASA picks finalists to explore comet, Saturn’s moon
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- NASA on Wednesday announced two finalists for billion-dollar robotic missions -- one to explore a…
9 years ago
No alien ‘signals’ from cigar-shaped asteroid: researchers
PARIS, France (AFP) -- No alien signals have been detected from an interstellar, cigar-shaped space rock discovered travelling through our…
9 years ago
Russian space agency blames satellite loss on programming error
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Russia's space agency on Tuesday blamed a failed satellite launch from its new cosmodrome on a…
9 years ago
Trump tells NASA to send Americans to Moon
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US President Donald Trump directed NASA on Monday to send Americans to the Moon for the first…
9 years ago
World’s space agencies propose setting up climate observatory
PARIS, France (AFP) -- The heads of several of the world's space agencies have proposed the creation of a climate observatory to…
9 years ago
Space station crew begins final training before December launch
Reuters -- The next crew of the International Space Station conducted final qualification training this week at the Gagarin Training…
9 years ago
NASA building new rover for Mars 2020 mission
Reuters -- NASA gave a sneak peek on Tuesday (November 28) of the rover being designed for their 2020 mission…
9 years ago
Cigar-shaped asteroid came from another solar system: study
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- A rocky cigar-shaped object detected in space last month came from another solar system, astronomers said Monday as…
9 years ago
NASA launches next-generation weather satellite
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Santa Barbara County, California (AFP) -- NASA on Saturday launched a next-generation satellite into space designed to…
9 years ago
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