Steadily ascending for nine hours and traveling a distance to loop around the planet four times, a Russian-made rocket booster successfully deployed a Canadian telecommunications satellite into the prescribed orbit Monday night. More than four decades ago, working under the orders of the Soviet leadership, technicians toiled in anonymity to build dozens of rocket engines to power Russian moon shots off planet Earth, intending to flaunt the supremacy of communism over capitalism.Ĭanadian broadcast satellite launched from Baikonur Going for its fifth flight since December in an unprecedented tempo, United Launch Alliance workers have begun stacking an Atlas 5 rocket for blastoff May 15 carrying a vital satellite to replenish the Global Positioning System.Īntares rocket engines lean on Russian moon legacy Slowly but surely closing in on an answer to a fundamental question - how common are Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars? - NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered the smallest worlds yet found orbiting in or near the habitable zones of two distant suns, researchers announced Thursday.Īnother Atlas 5 launch campaign has commenced Kepler finds its smallest habitable zone planets Antares rocket was halted 12 minutes before liftoff Wednesday after an Ethernet umbilical cable prematurely disconnected from the booster. The countdown for the first launch of the Orbital Sciences Corp. Umbilical glitch scrubs Antares rocket test launch
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Veteran Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov became the oldest man to walk in space Friday during an excursion outside the International Space Station to install a space weather monitor and a navigation aid for visiting European supply ships.
Russia launched a space capsule into orbit Friday packed with mice, geckos, gerbils, snails and fish to observe how the animals fare in a one-month, roundtrip voyage into the final frontier.Ĭosmonaut is oldest spacewalker in history Russian craft launched with cosmic cache of critters Privacy note: your e-mail address will not be used for any other purpose. Sign up for our NewsAlert service and have the latest news in astronomy and space e-mailed direct to your desktop.
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