March 26th, 2013 by
Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Satmex 8; Date: 26 March 2013, 1906 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Spacecraft separation is scheduled for 0419 UTC [too late for this issue].
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March 26th, 2013 by
A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft successfully completed the company’s second cargo flight to the International Space Station on 26 March with a 1736 UTC splashdown in the Pacific Ocean a few hundred kilometers west of Baja California, Mexico.
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March 26th, 2013 by
XCOR Aerospace announced the firing of a full piston pump-powered rocket engine. The company said this breakthrough is the foundation for fully reusable spacecraft that can fly multiple times per day, every day.
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March 26th, 2013 by
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has resumed science investigations after recovery from a computer glitch that prompted the engineers to switch the rover to a redundant main computer on 28 February.
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