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Just a few months after North Korea failed to launch a satellite, South Korea yesterday failed to launch a satellite. The launch, from Naro Space Center, appeared to go well. But when the craft reached space, one of the two fairings covering the satellite failed to drop off. With the extra weight, the satellite probably [...]
Shuttle’s (planned but cancelled) successor heading to museum
The X-38 was a spacecraft designed to bring crews to the International Space Station. It was an alternative to the Russian Soyuz and a successor to the Shuttle. It was canceled in 2002. Now the latest “shuttle successor” is in danger of cancellation…and the X-38 is headed to a museum. That’s right. A nearly “flight-ready” [...]
