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Beastly explorers
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On wings of light – Tiny spacecraft are flying through the atmosphere on beams of laser light. Leonard David reports on the start of a new age of cleaner, cheaper space flight
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Escape from Mars
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Son of Hubble – NASA’s replacement for its hugely successful space telescope will have to weigh less, cost less and peer deeper into the Universe than ever before. Leonard David looks at the options
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Stardust to catch a comet by the tail
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The telescope that flies
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Freefall to Jupiter
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Technology
Technology: Spacecraft designers reinvent the wheel
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The nuts and bolts of flops in space: Recent months have seen a spate of high-profile satellite failures. In a number of these cases, the breakdowns were not in complex electronics or computers but simple mechanics
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