The third quarter was also marked by SpaceX’s preparations for Starship’s fifth flight which has been delayed multiple times ...
Flight 5 will have different milestone timings, including an interesting element for the flight director. The Most Engines ...
Astronomers have found evidence for a volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet 635 light-years from Earth. No moons have been confirmed to orbit planets outside our solar system, but a sodium cloud hints ...
Like Ship 30, Ship 31 is also undergoing a revamp of its thermal protection system (TPS) tiles, which is hoped to aid the vehicle during re-entry. The new heatshield is more resilient, including ...
Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos as a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid ...
On July 5, 2023, the Ariane 5 launch vehicle took flight for the last time, thus ending a storied 27-year career for what was Europe’s first heavy-lift rocket. Nearly ten months later ...
NASA is now planning for the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage assigned to the Artemis II lunar flyby mission to be completed in mid-December for subsequent delivery to its Kennedy Space Center ...
On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight, and fifty ...