Cassini started its mission 15 years ago and has been exploring the Saturn system since 2004.
Credit: NASA/JPL
SpaceX dixit:
SpaceX is working to develop vehicles that are fully and rapidly reusable, a key element to radically reducing cost and increasing the efficiency of spaceflight. The 10-story Grasshopper test vehicle consists of a Falcon 9 first stage, a Merlin-1D engine, four steel landing legs, and a steel support structure. It is being tested in successively higher jumps at SpaceX\’s rocket development facility in Texas.
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On November 3, 2012, a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle placed into the designated orbits two communications satellites, Luch-5B and Yamal-300K.
Credit: Roscosmos
NASA dixit:
Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test on October 19, 2012, at the company\’s West Texas Launch Site, firing its pusher escape motor and launching a full-scale suborbital crew capsule from a propulsion module simulator. The test was part of Blue Origin\’s work supporting its funded Space Act Agreement with NASA\’s Commercial Crew Program during Commercial Crew Development Round 2.
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Suni Williams and Akihiko Hoshide completed the 253rd spacewalk performed by U.S. astronauts. During the 6-hour, 38-minute spacewalk, the two astronauts repaired an ammonia leak in one of the station\’s radiators.
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On October 31, 2012, a Soyuz-U launch vehicle lifted off from Baikonur with the Progress M-17M cargo spacecraft. Progress will dock with the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, and will deliver more than 2,500 kg of cargo.
Credit: Roscosmos
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