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NASA puts new rocket on launch pad for test flight (AP)

NASA puts new Ares I-X rocket on launch pad for test flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in more than a quarter century, a new vehicle is sitting at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ares I-X flight test vehicle arrived at the pad ...


The countdown stopped just eight minutes before the scheduled launch

SKorea delays rocket launch minutes before blast-off

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created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

South Korea Wednesday postponed the launch of its first space rocket just eight minutes before the scheduled blast-off, due to a technical fault.


NKorea rocket launch partial success: US expert

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created Apr 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

North Korea's rocket launch is a partial technological success on the way to building a long-range missile, even if Pyongyang failed to put a satellite in orbit, the former director of the US missile defense agency said ...


Final rocket launches, measures aurora movement

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created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's been a long wait, but it was worth it. The Black Brant XII sounding rocket with the CASCADES II experiment launched and flew through an active aurora display March 20 at 3:04 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time. The successful ...


Ares I-X rocket

Final Piece Of NASA's Next-Generation Rocket Heads To Launch Site

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created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday and began a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at ...


SKorea postpones first space rocket launch: official

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created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korea's first space rocket launch has been postponed by a month to late July to give engineers more time for tests, the government said Thursday.