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Asteroids, Astronomy, Dawn, Kuiper Belt, New Horizons, Pluto

2015: NASA’s Year of the Dwarf Planet

29 Dec , 2014 by Tim Reyes

Together, the space probes Dawn and New Horizons have been in flight for a collective 17 years. One remained close to home and the other departed to parts of the Solar System of which little is known. They now share a common destination in the same year: dwarf planets. At the time of these NASA […]

Alan Stern, Atlas V, caltech, ceres, dawn, dwarf planet, IAU, ion propulsion, JHUAPL, JPL, Michael Brown, NASA, New Horizons, orbital sciences corp., planet, Pluto, SwRI

Commercial Space

Antares Explosion Investigation Focuses on First Stage Propulsion Failure

3 Nov , 2014 by Ken Kremer

NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, VA – Investigators probing the Antares launch disaster are focusing on clues pointing to a failure in the first stage propulsion system that resulted in a loss of thrust and explosive mid-air destruction of the commercial rocket moments after liftoff from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, VA, at 6:22 p.m. EDT on […]

Antares rocket, Antares rocket explosion, Commercial Space, Cygnus cargo vessel, Frank Culbertson, ISS, NASA, NASA Wallops, Orb-3, orbital sciences corp.

Space Exploration, Space Exploration Technologies, Space Station

Watch A ‘Swan’ Fly Free From Its Trap In A Space Robotic Arm

20 Aug , 2014 by Elizabeth Howell

What does it look like when a cargo ship goes flying away from the International Space Station? This timelapse gives you a sense of what to expect. Here, you can see the handiwork of the (off-camera) Expedition 40 crew as they use the robotic Canadarm2 to let go of the Cygnus spacecraft. “Great feeling to […]

alexander gerst, Cygnus, orbital sciences corp.

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