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ESA’s Vega Rocket Launches Three Satellites to Space

May 7, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The second flight of ESA’s newest launch vehicle has successfully sent three different satellites to space. Launching at 02:06 GMT on 7 May from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the Vega rocket carried two Earth observation satellites — ESA’s Proba-V, [...]

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Video: Antares Rocket Launches Successfully

April 21, 2013

Orbital Sciences Antares rocket successfully launched on its maiden voyage at 5 pm EDT (21:00 UTC) on Sunday, April 21 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The test flight is serving as the precursor for a demonstration flight of its Cygnus resupply ship to the International Space Station later [...]

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Watch Live: First Launch of Antares Rocket

April 17, 2013

Video streaming by Ustream UPDATE: Wednesday’s test launch for Orbital Science Corporation’s Antares rocket was aborted due to the premature disconnection of a second-stage umbilical about 12 minutes before launch was scheduled. The earliest the flight can be rescheduled is Friday, April 19. “We are still examining all of the data, but it appears that [...]

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Watch “Fast-Track” Launch of Soyuz Live

March 28, 2013

Live video by Ustream Watch live the first “fast-track” human Soyuz flight to the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-08M crew will arrive at the ISS just five hours and 49 minutes after launch instead of the usual two days. Commander Pavel Vinogradov, flight engineer Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy are scheduled for [...]

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Next Soyuz Crew Will Take 6-Hour Fast-Track to Space Station

March 6, 2013

The next Soyuz crew will be the first to try out the new abbreviated four-orbit rendezvous with the International Space Station. This relatively new, modified launch and docking profile for the Russian ships has been tried successfully with three Progress resupply vehicles, and now Roscosmos and NASA have agreed to try it on a human [...]

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