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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 7 months ago
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s unmanned Dragon spacecraft early Wednesday successfully linked up with the international space station, passing another important milestone toward regular commercial resupply missions to orbit. After a series of...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
Private space capsule delivers precious cargo to space station The unmanned Dragon spacecraft was captured by station astronauts using a robotic arm after an apparently flawless approach by the cargo-laden space capsule. By Tariq Malik, SPACE.com /...
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Venture Beat
| 7 months ago
It's one of the most expensive grocery deliveries in history, and the first-ever space mission by a private company to re-supply the International Space Station. Carrying over 800 pounds of supplies for the ISS crew including ice cream for a desert...
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io9
| 7 months ago
SpaceX has completed its first commercial cargo delivery to the ISS Early this morning, SpaceX's supply-hauling Dragon capsule was successfully captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, in the first-ever commercial cargo delivery...
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The Courier-Mail
| 7 months ago
SpaceX, the private company owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched the Dragon on Sunday evening atop a Falcon 9 rocket from an air base in Cape Canaveral, Florida near the Kennedy Space Centre...The capsule is loaded with 400 kilograms...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Hennigan After performing a series of delicate maneuvers above the Earth, SpaceX 's cone-shaped Dragon capsule moved in Wednesday for a historic docking with the International Space Station...PDT, the crew aboard the space station used its robotic...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station plucked a commercial cargo ship from orbit on Wednesday, a key maneuver in the first U.S. supply run to the orbital outpost since the retirement of the cargo-hauling space shuttles last year. After...
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Towleroad
| 7 months ago
The docking of the SpaceX Dragon capsule with the International Space Station is currently underway. This is the first resupply mission for SpaceX Dragon and the first time a private company has sent a supply ship into space...This post's comment...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
The SpaceX cargo ship, called Dragon, eased up to the orbiting lab, and station astronauts reached out with a robot arm and snared it. "Looks like we've tamed the Dragon," reported space station commander Sunita Williams . "We're happy she's on board...
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Daily Breeze
| 7 months ago
Sunday's launch was the first of 12 such missions for the company officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp...Dragon is scheduled to arrive at the space station on Wednesday to deliver about 1,000 pounds of experiments and other...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
Staff / October 9, 2012 The rocket that lofted SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule to orbit Sunday night (Oct. 7) experienced a minor glitch during the successful launch, company officials say.
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 7 months ago
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. on Monday said one of nine main engines on its Falcon 9 rocket malfunctioned during the previous night's launch but the booster was still able to put the private cargo capsule it was carrying into proper orbit.
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Daily Breeze
| 8 months ago
Five months after making history with its debut flight to the International Space Station, Hawthorne rocket company SpaceX is planning a Sunday launch to the orbiting laboratory, the first of at least 12 regular resupply trips...SpaceX's Falcon 9...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
One of nine engines on Space X company's Falcon 9 rocket failed Sunday 79 seconds after launch because of a pressure loss. The engine didn't explode, but it did start a series of events that meant another company's private satellite is not in the...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
One of nine engines on SpaceX company's Falcon 9 rocket failed Sunday after launch...There was enough power to send the Dragon capsule and it's half a ton of supplies toward the space station. Then, the rocket was supposed to send an industrial...
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io9
| 8 months ago
Dragon capsule on a trip to the International Space Station; and while all signs indicate that Dragon is doing fine, video footage reveals that the Falcon 9 rocket used to lift the capsule had some... technical difficulties during launch. Fast...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Hennigan One of the nine engines on SpaceX 's massive Falcon 9 rocket experienced a problem and shut down during last night's launch from Cape Canaveral , Fla., company officials said. The anomaly occurred about 1 minute, 19 seconds into the flight.
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
SpaceX capsule heads for space station SpaceX 's Dragon spacecraft was successfully launched Sunday, and by Wednesday morning the International Space Station crew should be greeting it with open arms. Sunita Williams, ISS commander, and Japanese...
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The Californian
| 8 months ago
Florida Today Filed Under SpaceX Rocket Launches on Resupply Mission: Private company SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon 9 rocket into space to resupply the International Space Station...SpaceXs Dragon cargo capsule blasted off from Cape...
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Venture Beat
| 8 months ago
SpaceX s second big launch successfully took flight Sunday, with Falcon 9 rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station. But this flight was bumpier than last, with one of the engines failing mid-flight. The first Dragon capsule launch...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
The SpaceX craft, carrying around 1,000 pounds (455 kilograms) of supplies, took off as scheduled at 8:35 pm (0035 GMT) and is set to reach the orbiting space lab on October 10...The capsule named Dragon reached orbit and spread its two wing-like...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
35 p.m. from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, just a few miles south of the space shuttle launch pads. The spacecraft will be joined to the station three days later. Commercial Resupply Services contract worth $1.6...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
For this launch, only cargo is going; private transportation for astronauts is still several years away...SpaceX, for short launched its Falcon 9 rocket on schedule at 8:35 p.m...The rocket is carrying a capsule called Dragon that contains about 1,...
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The Australian
| 8 months ago
Space transport company, SpaceX, launched its Dragon capsule into orbit just minutes ago, headed for the International Space Station. The capsule is carrying 454kgs of cargo, including chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream for the three station residents.
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
Scott Smith. 'There's a lot of science that comes out of this.' The Dragon will spend close to three weeks at the space station before being released and parachuting into the Pacific at the end of October...None of the Russian, European or Japanese...
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The Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, Falcon 9 rocket with it's Dragon capsule attached on top is seen at Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Oct. 2, 2012...The liftoff is planned for Sunday morning, Oct.
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
AFP An unmanned, privately owned Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo capsule has blasted off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to restore a US supply line to the International Space Station after the retirement of the space shuttle . Powered by nine...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 8 months ago
A private rocket and cargo spacecraft owned by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. blasted off from Florida on Sunday night as the company sought to begin regular commercial shipments to the international space station, a development intended to...
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Daily Breeze
| 8 months ago
An experiment from Santa Monica High School will be among the payload items on a rocket and spaceship -- built in Hawthorne -- that was to be launched from Cape Canaveral tonight. The science project is one of 11 student research projects to be...
