Spacecraft could be fuelled by space junk collected in orbit
Spacecraft could soon be powered by space junk collected in orbit with a new engine that runs on scrap metal. British tech ...
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Europe's Hera asteroid probe heads for Mars after engine burn
The Hera mission is headed for the Didymos binary asteroid system. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) smashed ...
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Go Centaur! Space Force stands up rocket stage at Los Angeles base
The liquid hydrogen-fueled Centaur, in its various configurations, has been used in almost 300 launches of Earth orbit and ...
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Reaction Engines goes into bankruptcy, taking the hypersonic SABRE engine with it
A typical launch into low Earth orbit for example can cost anything from ... In particular to address access issues to space ...
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Four astronauts of SpaceX Crew-8 return to Earth after months of delays
The four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew 8 returned to Earth Friday morning, following an eight-month stay at the International Space Station that was extended by technical problems with Boeing's ...
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Rocket Lab wins $8 million U.S. Air Force contract for engine development
The contract is to advance digital engineering processes for the company’s next-generation Archimedes rocket engine ...
Small wooden satellite heads to International Space Station
The first wood-panel satellite is on a SpaceX flight to the International Space Station, where it will test the durability of ...
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China space station crew returns to Earth after 6 months in space
Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after a six-month stay on China’s Tiangong space station BEIJING -- Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Monday after a six-month stay on ...
NASA runs first engine tests on supersonic X-59 research aircraft
NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the ...