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Washington (AFP) Sept 15, 2024
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, which made history when its crew conducted the first spacewalk by non-government astronauts, splashed down off the coast of Florida early Sunday. The Dragon spacecraft landed in the ocean at 3:37 am (0737 GMT), a webcast of the splashdown showed, with a recovery team deploying in the pre-dawn darkness to retrieve the capsule and crew. The four-member team
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Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2024
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, which made history when its crew conducted the first ever spacewalk by non-government astronauts, is returning to Earth on Sunday. Splashdown is scheduled to take place at approximately 3:36 am Eastern Time (0736 GMT) off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida. A live webcast will be carried by SpaceX starting around an hour beforehand. The four-member
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Tehran (AFP) Sept 14, 2024
Iran on Saturday blasted a new research satellite into orbit, state media said, in the latest such development for an aerospace programme that has long faced Western criticism. "The Chamran-1 research satellite was successfully launched and put into orbit by the Ghaem-100 carrier," state television said. The satellite, which weighs around 60 kilograms (132 pounds), is designed to test h
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 15, 2024
South Australia is set to enhance its position as a global aerospace hub following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Southern Launch, a prominent spaceport provider, and Hypersonix Launch Systems, a Queensland-based developer of hypersonic vehicles and scramjet technology. The MoU outlines a collaboration to develop a hypersonic test bed service that will utilize Southern Launch's spac

What next for Boeing Starliner sans astronauts

Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
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College Station TX (SPX) Sep 15, 2024
Boeing's crew transport space capsule, the Starliner, returned to Earth without its two-person crew right after midnight Eastern time on Sept. 7, 2024. Its remotely piloted return marked the end of a fraught test flight to the International Space Station which left two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams, on the station for months longer than intended after thruster failures led
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