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VideoChina launches first satellite for Laos
Built and financed by China, a $258 million Laotian communications satellite project launched Friday aboard a Long March 3B rocket to better connect the mountainous Southeast Asia nation and surrounding regions.
VideoFirst satellite launched for Russia’s new missile warning network
Russia launched an early warning satellite Tuesday, deploying the first in a new fleet of military satellites to detect missile launches heading for Russian territory.
VideoAirborne researchers catch up with falling space debris
Stationed aboard a Gulfstream business jet over the Indian Ocean, an international team of scientists observed a mysterious fragment of space junk falling through Earth's atmosphere Friday years after it was discarded on a deep space mission.
VideoRewatch the Ariane 5’s spectacular sunset liftoff
Watch multi-angle video replays of Tuesday's blastoff of an Ariane 5 rocket from the jungles of South America carrying two communications satellite for Arabsat and the Indian Space Research Organization.
VideoSolar wind blasting away Martian atmosphere
The solar wind, the million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles blasted away from the sun, is slowly but surely stripping away Mars' atmosphere and likely played a major role in turning the red planet from a habitable world in the distant past into the dry, frozen wasteland seen today, scientists said Thursday.
VideoVideo released from Atlas 5 rocket launch of cubesat flock
Remarkable rocketcam video footage of the Oct. 8 flight a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from California has been released to show its hitchhiker cubesat payloads shooting into orbit.
VideoVideo clips show rocket anomaly high above Hawaii
Videos of Tuesday's sunset liftoff of the U.S. military's Super Strypi launcher show the low-cost fin-guided rocket streaking into the skies over Hawaii and arcing downrange toward the south with 13 satellites before apparently losing control and breaking up.
VideoGiant antenna deploys successfully aboard Morelos 3
Mexico's advanced mobile communications satellite launched last month for humanitarian and national security uses has successfully blossomed in space.
VideoVirgin Galactic in transition one year after fatal accident
Last year's fatal crash of Virgin Galactic's suborbital rocket plane has delayed the start of the company's commercial operations at least a year, prompting a change in mindset from a "period of euphoria to a period of real, measurable, but tough progress" as the enterprise backed by Richard Branson enters the second decade since its founding.
