Spacecraft
Japan loses contact with Akatsuki, humanity’s only active Venus probe
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The Japanese space agency said it has lost contact with its intrepid Venus spacecraft Akatsuki. Akatsuki is Japan’s mission dedicated to studying ...
Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space
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NASA’s mission to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche has fired up its ion engines and is now cruising across the solar system ...
Japanese-European spacecraft bound for Mercury weakened by thruster glitch
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The BepiColombo spacecraft, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), could be feeling the heat even ...
SpaceX Falcon 9 will light up the sky late Friday over Space Coast
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Brevard Space Coast launch sites rockets spaceX ULA NASA A quick look at which rockets lift off from various Brevard launch sites. ...
SpaceX to launch Starlink satellites Sunday from Florida Space Coast
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Brevard Space Coast launch sites rockets spaceX ULA NASA A quick look at which rockets lift off from various Brevard launch sites. ...
The Latest in Boeing’s Starliner Fiasco Is a Feud Over That ‘Buzzing’ Valve
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Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse for Boeing’s attempt at launching a crew to orbit, in comes a longstanding ...
NASA’s TESS spacecraft resumes exoplanet hunt after recovering from glitch
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NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is back in action, searching for worlds beyond the solar system’s limits. TESS came out ...
NASA’s Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months
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The future of space travel depends on our ability to reach celestial pit stops faster and more efficiently. As such, NASA is ...
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to lift off tonight on first piloted test flight
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An Atlas 5 rocket carrying astronauts for the first time in six decades was primed for blastoff Monday night to boost Boeing’s ...
How NASA fixed a problem on Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles away
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Working from more than 15 billion miles away, NASA engineers have solved a computer problem aboard Voyager 1, allowing the probe to ...
