Fastest Spacecraft Ever Made Did (and Didn’t) Touch the Sun, Here’s Why It’s Complicated
18 Dec 2021, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announced last week the Parker Solar Probe touched the Sun, three years after it left Earth on a mission to better understand our star
NASA Spacecraft Touches the Sun for the First Time, Lives to Tell the Story
15 Dec 2021, 02:22 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Recently, NASA's Parker Solar Probe, has reached where no other spacecraft has: the Sun's atmosphere. The probe successfully uncovered incredible mysteries
NASA Is Slamming Spacecraft to the Ground for a Good Reason
14 Dec 2021, 02:39 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA is testing spacecraft and hardware by dropping them on the ground repeatedly. This will help the agency prepare for a future sample return mission
Airbus Awarded Multi-Million Contract to Build an Exoplanet-Hunting Spacecraft for ESA
8 Dec 2021, 00:41 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / ESA has awarded Airbus a € 200 million contract to design and build a spacecraft that will hunt planets located beyond our Solar System
Spacecraft Hits Speeds That Could Make the Earth-Moon Distance an Under-One-Hour Trip
29 Nov 2021, 23:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Parker Solar Probe hit speeds of 364,660 miles per hour (586,864 kph) during its tenth pass around the Sun, it's a record according to NASA
The Only Spaceplane That Can Land Anywhere on Earth, Closer to Its First NASA Mission
22 Nov 2021, 06:52 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / The Dream Chaser, claiming to be the only orbital spaceplane available and almost ready to enter service, just got a massive $1.4 billion funding
SpaceX 215-Feet Rocket Goes Up with Crew Dragon on Top Ahead of Halloween Launch
28 Oct 2021, 01:11 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / On October 31st, NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 mission will carry an international crew of four astronauts on a six-month science expedition to the ISS
Hypersonic Spaceplane Sexbomb Will Cruise at Mach 5 After Being Dropped From a Balloon
27 Oct 2021, 04:43 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Sexbomb is the actual name of a hypersonic aircraft that will fly in an upcoming test, after being dropped from a stratospheric balloon.
Standing 322 Feet High, NASA's Fully Stacked Rocket Is Taller than the Statue of Liberty
23 Oct 2021, 00:34 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / The assembly of NASA's mega-Moon rocket is complete. The fully stacked spacecraft now stands 322 feet tall and it awaits final preparations for the Artemis I
Russian Spacecraft Fires Thrusters and Pushes the Space Station Out of Position, Again
16 Oct 2021, 04:28 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / On Friday, October 15th, a Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft fired its thrusters kept firing its thrusters, pushing the ISS out of place
NASA and the UK Space Agency Join Forces to Launch an Interstellar Mapping Spacecraft
15 Oct 2021, 06:14 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / UK is gearing up to become one of the leading powers in the space industry, and it's collaborating with NASA for a mission that's critical to human exploration
Orion Spaceship Service Module Crosses the Atlantic to Its Last Earthbound Stop
14 Oct 2021, 07:40 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / An Antonov aircraft is carrying the second European Service Module across the Atlantic to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida
General Atomics Completes NASA Deep Space Atomic Clock Mission
14 Oct 2021, 01:16 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / After more than two years of improving spacecraft navigation in space, General Atomics announced the completion of NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock mission
Orion Spaceship Service Module Gears Up for Its Trans-Atlantic Journey
7 Oct 2021, 00:04 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA’s next-generation Orion space capsule is one step closer to its first journey around the Moon as one of its key components is heading its way
The UAE Will Send a Spacecraft on a 2.2 Billion-Mile Journey to Explore the Asteroid Belt
6 Oct 2021, 21:40 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / The United Arab Emirates has recently announced plans to launch a new interplanetary mission to explore the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter
ESA’s Euclid Telescope Goes Through Extreme Space Testing Before Upcoming Launch
30 Sep 2021, 08:46 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Euclid will study dark matter and dark energy, at almost 1 million miles away from Earth, with unprecedented galaxy imaging and measuring capabilities
NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Is Gearing Up to Explore the Trojan Asteroids Up-Close
29 Sep 2021, 00:38 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA is preparing to launch its Lucy spacecraft to study the Trojans, ancient objects that might hold clues about how the solar system has formed
Spacecraft Could Make Their Own Landing Pads as They Descend onto the Lunar Surface
26 Sep 2021, 00:26 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Landing on the rugged lunar surface might pose some serious risks for Artemis astronauts. This is why Masten is working to develop a FAST Landing Pad
Rocket Lab Set to Launch Astroscale Satellite, Will Demo New Space Debris Removal Tech
23 Sep 2021, 19:22 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Rocket Lab's Electron rocket will carry Astroscale's ADRAS-J satellite into orbit. Once deployed, the satellite will demo new space debris removal tech
NASA Spacecraft Will Use Solar Electric Propulsion to Reach Rare Metal Asteroid
22 Sep 2021, 00:39 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA's Psyche spacecraft will use solar electric propulsion for the first time to get to an unusual metal-rich asteroid, located 1.5 billion miles away.