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Cold War-Era Soviet Spacecraft Expected To Crash Back To Earth In May 2025
A 50-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, is set to crash back to Earth in May 2025, with its fate uncertain, sparking concerns about potential damage or impact.
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Why Russia's Luna-25 Probe Crashed On Moon And What It Means For Moscow
Failure also underscores the pressure on Russia's $2 trillion economy, which has so far withstood what the West casts as the most stringent sanctions ever imposed.
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Debris From the Downed Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Found 35 Miles Away
Federal accident investigators say that tiny pieces of Virgin Galactic's experimental spaceship that broke up in flight have been found 35 miles (56 kilometers) from the main wreckage area.
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A Look at Virgin Galactic's Feathering Technology
The Virgin Galactic spaceship destroyed when it broke apart high over the Mojave Desert was designed to take tourists on a fleeting thrill ride through the lower reaches of space.
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Pilot Actions Examined in US Crash of Virgin Galactic Spacecraft
A human-factors expert will join the investigation of the fatal crash of Virgin Galactic's passenger spacecraft to study why the co-pilot prematurely unlocked a pivoting tail section of the ship during a test flight, the National Transportation Safety Board chairman said on Monday.
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Crashed Virgin Spacecraft 'Ignored' Space Safety Warnings: Expert
Virgin Galactic "ignored" repeated warnings in the years leading up to the deadly crash of its spacecraft in California, a rocket science safety expert said on Sunday, as investigators hunted for clues to the accident.
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One Dead, One Injured in Virgin Spaceship Crash: Police
One pilot was killed and another seriously injured when a Virgin Galactic spaceship crashed in the desert on Friday, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said.
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Russian space probe crashes into Pacific
A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars has come down in flames, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, officials said.
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Russia says its spacecraft may crash into Atlantic
Russia's space agency has adjusted its forecast for the crash of a failed spacecraft, saying it may shower its fragments into the south Atlantic. Roscosmos said the unmanned Phobos-Ground probe could plummet to Earth on Sunday or Monday anywhere along a broad swath between 51.4 degrees north and 51.4 degrees south.
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Russian spacecraft to crash soon, risks unclear
A Russian space probe designed to burnish the nation's faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars' moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most toxic pieces of space junk ever.
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Cold War-Era Soviet Spacecraft Expected To Crash Back To Earth In May 2025
A 50-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, is set to crash back to Earth in May 2025, with its fate uncertain, sparking concerns about potential damage or impact.
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Why Russia's Luna-25 Probe Crashed On Moon And What It Means For Moscow
Failure also underscores the pressure on Russia's $2 trillion economy, which has so far withstood what the West casts as the most stringent sanctions ever imposed.
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Debris From the Downed Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Found 35 Miles Away
Federal accident investigators say that tiny pieces of Virgin Galactic's experimental spaceship that broke up in flight have been found 35 miles (56 kilometers) from the main wreckage area.
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A Look at Virgin Galactic's Feathering Technology
The Virgin Galactic spaceship destroyed when it broke apart high over the Mojave Desert was designed to take tourists on a fleeting thrill ride through the lower reaches of space.
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Pilot Actions Examined in US Crash of Virgin Galactic Spacecraft
A human-factors expert will join the investigation of the fatal crash of Virgin Galactic's passenger spacecraft to study why the co-pilot prematurely unlocked a pivoting tail section of the ship during a test flight, the National Transportation Safety Board chairman said on Monday.
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Crashed Virgin Spacecraft 'Ignored' Space Safety Warnings: Expert
Virgin Galactic "ignored" repeated warnings in the years leading up to the deadly crash of its spacecraft in California, a rocket science safety expert said on Sunday, as investigators hunted for clues to the accident.
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One Dead, One Injured in Virgin Spaceship Crash: Police
One pilot was killed and another seriously injured when a Virgin Galactic spaceship crashed in the desert on Friday, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said.
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Russian space probe crashes into Pacific
A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars has come down in flames, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, officials said.
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Russia says its spacecraft may crash into Atlantic
Russia's space agency has adjusted its forecast for the crash of a failed spacecraft, saying it may shower its fragments into the south Atlantic. Roscosmos said the unmanned Phobos-Ground probe could plummet to Earth on Sunday or Monday anywhere along a broad swath between 51.4 degrees north and 51.4 degrees south.
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Russian spacecraft to crash soon, risks unclear
A Russian space probe designed to burnish the nation's faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars' moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most toxic pieces of space junk ever.
