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Silent Mars rover travels through initial detection and test drives

The Perseverance Mars rover is traveling through its initial checkout and activation, retrieving some 7,000 photos to date, releasing its seven-foot-long robot arm and taking a short test drive after a post-landing software upgrade, engineers said Friday. Robert Hogg, deputy mission manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, …

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Northrop Grumman launches cargo ship toward space station

The Cygnus cargo ship orbited a Northrop Grumman Entrance rocket on Saturday after a picture-perfect launch off the east coast of Virginia, carrying more than 8,000 pounds of supplies and equipment for the International Space Station. The rocket’s two Russian-built RD-181 first-stage engines were ignited at 12:36 p.m., throttle to …

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