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Scientists predict big things for the tiny CubeSat: 'a satellite in a shoe box'

Tiny satellites the size of a small cube, jam-packed with the most advanced nanotechnologies: is this the future of Space missions? To find out, we

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Space X rocket destroyed after successful EU satellite launch

Space X’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket has successfully put a European satellite into orbit, but what launch engineers described as a “hard landing”

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SpaceX launches ocean monitoring satellite

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Sunday putting a climate-monitoring satellite into orbit. The Jason-3 will help improve our

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Astronaut Tim Peake becomes the first Briton to walk in space

Major Tim Peake made history on Friday, January 15, becoming the first Briton to walk in space. The 43-year-old ventured out of the International

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Briton Tim Peake's historic ISS spacewalk is cut short

Tim Peake has become the first astronaut representing Britain to walk in space. But the ex-army major’s trip outside the International Space Station

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Happy New Year from space

Astronauts from the International Space Station, Americans Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra and Briton Tim Peake have wished a Happy New Year to everybody

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SpaceX jubilant at success of re-usable rocket

A rocket took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Monday and landed again ten minutes later – the first time such a feat has been achieved. The

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Cargo vehicle launches on a Soyuz rocket to the ISS

An unpiloted version of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft known as the ISS Progress 62 cargo resupply vehicle blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in

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Britain salutes its space hero

A Soyuz space craft has successfully docked with the International Space Station. There was a slight delay due to a failure with the automatic

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British astronaut Tim Peake is on his way to ISS

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a three-man international crew, including Britain’s first ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut, Tim Peake, blasted

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ISS crew return to Earth

Three International Space Station crew members have landed back on Earth in the snows of Kazakhstan. A capsule carrying NASA astronaut Kjell

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The Astronaut Academy: 'This thin blue line makes our planet livable'

Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is one of the few people who's seen what planet Earth looks like as a whole during his six months on the ISS.

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Europe's LISA Pathfinder begins search for ripples in space

A rocket carrying a European prototype satellite has blasted off from French Guiana. The trailblazing Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or

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LISA Pathfinder to seek out Einstein's gravity waves, reveal true universe

From the Guiana spaceport near Kourou, just five degrees north of the equator, our correspondent Claudio Rosmino waited with baited breath for

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LISA Pathfinder's mission poised to discover the secrets of gravity

The European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder mission, originally scheduled to lift off from French Guyana in the early hours of December 2, has been

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Tim Peake on what happens if things go wrong on ISS

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Rosetta and Philae celebrate a year of success for ESA

A year on from Rosetta and Philae's exploits, ESA's historic comet lander mission nears its end

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Russia: All-female space crew emerge from moon mission experiment

It was ‘one small step for man…one giant leap for gender equality’ when a team of Russian women emerged from a mock spaceship in Moscow on Friday

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The ISS in numbers: 15 things it has improved on Earth

Today marks an important milestone in the history of humanity in space. For the last 15 years, human beings have continuously inhabited the

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Unlocking the secrets of the Jupiter's Icy Moons

In this edition of Space we set a course for Jupiter, destination of the next European Space Agency mission JUICE. The aim of JUICE (JUpiter ICy moon