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VideoRosetta mission’s ‘ambition’ spotlighted in film
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission stars with Game of Thrones actor Aidan Gillan and actress Aisling Franciosi in a short film released recently to promote the spacecraft's exploration of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
VideoJapanese satellites launched on Soviet-era missile
A decommissioned Soviet-era ballistic missile -- adapted for space launches instead of nuclear war -- rocketed out of an underground silo and sent five Japanese Earth observing satellites into orbit.
VideoVirgin Galactic rocket plane deployed braking system prematurely
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane disintegrated in mid-air after two tail stabilizers prematurely extended, federal investigators said, a discovery that could shift the focus of the probe into the fatal crash away from the craft's rocket motor.
VideoSpaceShipTwo crash inquiry could take a year
Investigators have plenty of evidence to sift through as they look into the cause of the fatal crash of a Virgin Galactic rocket plane, but the acting chair of the National Transportation Safety Board said the inquiry may take up to a year to complete.
VideoMilitary communications satellite launched from Russia
A Russian military communications relay platform blasted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, riding a Soyuz rocket and Fregat upper stage into an egg-shaped orbit reaching nearly 25,000 miles above Earth.
VideoAn eyewitness account: Wallops Island is burning
First, you see the rocket sputter, then pause suspended in mid-air and crash back to Earth in a blinding ball of flame. If you still have your wits, you brace for the blast wave.
VideoWaterside view of Delta 4 GPS 2F-6 Launch
Spectacular video of the twilight launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket carrying the GPS 2F-6 navigation satellite on May 16, 2014.