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US President announces new $700-million weapons package for Ukraine
Biden announced the plan to give Ukraine precision HIMARS rocket systems after receiving assurances from Kyiv that it would not use them to hit targets inside of Russian territory
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US rocket systems for Ukraine not meant to strike Russia: WH official
US President has agreed to provide Ukraine with rocket systems that can strike with precision at long-range Russian targets as part of a $700-mn weapons package expected to be unveiled on Wednesday
6 rockets land near town in northern Iraq, no casualties: Report
On April 6, three rockets were also fired from the al-Hamdaniya area and hit an inhabited area near an oil installation in the Khabat area, which also caused no casualties
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Pete Davidson skipping ride to space on Jeff Bezos' rocket Blue Origin
The Saturday Night Live star is no longer able to make the flight, which has been delayed for nearly a week, Bezos' space travel company said Thursday night
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Nasa launches asteroid-deflecting spacecraft on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
Move will test technique that one day might avert an apocalyptic collision with Earth
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Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson flying own rocket to space
After a lifetime of yearning to fly in space, Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson was poised to blast off aboard his own rocket ship Sunday in his boldest, grandest adventure yet.
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Why Chinese rocket's crash should alert us to the problem of space junk
Navigating the celestial traffic jam caused by defunct rockets, satellites and their debris is both challenging and dangerous
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Debris of China's disintegrating Long March rocket falls into Indian Ocean
Pieces of the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere at 10:24 a.m. Sunday local time and plunged into the sea at around 72.47 degrees east longitude and 2.65 degrees north latitude
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Falling space rocket 'highly unlikely' to cause any damage on earth: China
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that it was tracking a large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this weekend
ISRO launches sounding rocket to study attitudinal variations
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched a sounding rocket to study attitudinal variations in the neutral winds and plasma dynamics
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Agnikul Cosmos fires a single-piece fully 3D printed rocket engine
This is a unique rocket engine because it has been made as a single component in one run of the printer, and has zero assembled parts
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Fake asteroid? NASA expert identifies mystery object as old rocket
Chodas speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually the Centaur upper rocket stage that successfully propelled NASA''s Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was dis
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Agnikul signs agreement with Alaska Aerospace to test launch its rocket
The IIT-Madras incubated startup said it is on track to undertake the launch by the end of 2021
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Tata Power wins Rs 490 cr defence order for all-weather rocket system
Contract to be executed in 31 Months after accord of Bulk Production Clearance, and once First off Production Model is validated
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Nasa sounding rocket finds helium structures in Sun's atmosphere
The HERSCHEL sounding rocket investigation adds to a body of work seeking to understand the origin of the slow component of the solar wind
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Long March-5: China moves rocket into place for its first Mars mission
The rocket is due to blast off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in the southern island province of Hainan in late July or early August
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Chinese start-ups push into space business, plan to challenge SpaceX
Landspace needs roughly a further $115 million in capital to reach the stage where it can start commercial operations
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Rocket launches and moon trips to look forward to in 2018
Elon Musk and his company's rocket scientists aim to make an early mark on 2018's calendar of space launch events
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Rocket carrying South Asia satellite lifts off from Sriharikota
India is bearing the Rs 450 cr cost of the launch
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India's first private rocket set for launch in 2020
If successful, this would increase capacity to hurl small satellites into space, meeting both local demand and serving global customers
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