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Archive for September 9th, 2016

OSIRIS-REx embarks on 7-year journey

September 9th, 2016 by

Rocket: Atlas V; Payload: OSIRIS-REx; Date: 8 September 2016, 2305 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The Atlas V launched the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft into a hyperbolic trajectory away from Earth where it will begin a seven-year mission to return an asteroid sample.

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Galileo satellites being prepared for launch on Ariane 5

September 9th, 2016 by

The four spacecraft to be orbited on Arianespace’s first launch of Galileo navigation satellites by Ariane 5 have begun their processing at the Spaceport in preparation for a November lift-off from French Guiana.

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Falcon 9 ‘fireball’ puzzles SpaceX

September 9th, 2016 by

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the company’s launchpad rocket incident on 1 September is proving to be “the most difficult and complex failure” it has ever encountered.

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RapidScat team investigating power system anomaly

September 9th, 2016 by

Mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, are assessing two power system-related anomalies affecting the operation of NASA’s ISS-RapidScat instrument aboard the International Space Station. RapidScat measures surface wind speeds and directions over the ocean.

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