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Wikinews writing Writing an article The first images of Mercury taken from orbit around the planet have been received from NASA's MErcury Surface, Space...

craft' in Sanskrit) has completed the tricky manoeuvre of entering the lunar orbit at 5:15 PM Indian standard time. This was an important milestone for the...

reached its destined lunar orbit on Wednesday. The satellite's on-board engine was fired for 58 seconds. It is now in a circular orbit 102 kilometres from the...

reach its destination, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter entered the Martian orbit. The successful orbital maneuver garnered applause from NASA controllers...

the second stage maintained the planned trajectory into orbit. The rocket achieved an orbit at an altitude of 135 miles above the Earth after approximately...

Falcon 1 rocket has failed to place a DARPA demonstration payload into orbit, on its first flight into space. The rocket launched from Omelek Island...

to probe Mars reached orbit around the planet on Friday, joining five others currently active. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's two-year mission is expected...

this enhanced-resolution image. The picture was taken from Mars orbit with the Mars Orbiter Camera on board the Mars Global Surveyor. The image was captured...

article Yesterday, NASA announced their spacecraft Juno has reached Jupiter orbit. It was launched almost five years ago to investigate the largest planet...

Wednesday, May 4, 2005  NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the latest robotic spacecraft destined for Mars, arrived at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle...

but intermittent signals have given them some hope the mission has made orbit. The 100kg vehicle was launched atop a converted ICBM from a Russian nuclear...

been discovered orbiting a star called Gliese 876 about 15 light years from Earth. It is the first rocky planet to be discovered orbiting a star, although...

separated from the rocket. It is due to be inserted into a geostationary orbit on the 21st of February. The satellite is owned by the Civil Aviation Bureau...

today for the first time ever, that astronomers photographed a planet orbiting a sun other than our own. Photographs were taken late last year by the...

property of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, which he hopes will soon be in its own orbit around the Sun. This is the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V of Project...

article On Monday, the James Webb Space Telescope entered its destination orbit around the L2 Lagrange point, about 1,500,000 kilometers (932,057 mi) from...

15-minute flight, all three satellites were in a 450 kilometer (280 mile) orbit: the ISRO's Earth Observation Satellite-7 (EOS-07), weighing 156.3 kilograms...

Pillars of Wikinews writing Writing an article The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found evidence of hydrated silica or opal, a form of mineral, over...

yesterday, marking the first time a pope has conversed with astronauts in orbit. Organized by the European Space Agency (ESA), the call originated from...

writing Writing an article American astronaut, Randolph Bresnik, is in orbit over 200 miles above the Earth, where he learned of the birth of his daughter...