Four Galileo satellites being readied for launch
Engineers at the European Space Agency opened an early Christmas present — a new satellite for the Galileo navigation program.
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final frontier
ESA: Comet probe is ‘game changer’
Hundreds of millions of kilometers from earth, a European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully landing on the icy, dusty
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Hitch in Philae’s comet landing
The Philae landing vehicle landed on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at 5:03 p.m. CET. The news was first sent
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ESA’s Philae lander headed to comet surface
A landing vehicle launched from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta robotic space probe should land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko today. The
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New Galileo satellites in wrong orbit
The first two Galileo Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites, launched on August 22 from the Guiana Space Centre, have not
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Galileo programme steps away from Soyuz rockets
The EU satellite navigation programme Galileo signed a 500 million euro agreement for three Ariane-5 launchers on August 20 with
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European satellite to make historic rendezvous with comet
A space probe that has been racing across the solar system to catch up with a comet for a decade
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Bulgaria to see Supermoon on July 12, first of three in 2014
Bulgaria will join much of the rest of the planet in seeing a Super Moon on July 12 2014, the
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Astronomers discover ‘Earth-size diamond in space’
Astronomers say they’ve discovered “an Earth-size diamond in space.” The white dwarf star, some 900 million light-years away, could be
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