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Boeing’s Starliner Won’t Get to Fly This Year, but the Wonky Spacecraft Is Far From Dead
After nearly a year of trying to fix the ill-fated spacecraft, NASA says Starliner is set for a cargo mission in 2026.
SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather
Another NASA-funded tech demo named Athena EPIC was also aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. Led by NASA's Langley Research Center, ...
With delay until 2026, Boeing Starliner next flight may not carry humans, NASA says
As SpaceX prepares to send up its 19th Dragon spacecraft with humans on board, the Boeing Starliner—which has only completed ...
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See Tianzhou 9 cargo mission dock at China's Tiangong space station (video)
Packed aboard Tianzhou 9 was 7.2 tons (6.5 metric tons) of cargo, including 1.65 tons (1.5 metric tons) of food for the three ...
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How NASA’s Bold Thermal Gamble Revived JunoCam and Changed Spacecraft Longevity
Launching another camera isn’t exactly an option, considering the total costs of the Juno spacecraft and mission sit at $1.13 billion, and it’s not like there’s a camera repair shop on Jupiter. That ...
Inbound Aerospace raises $1 million pre-seed funding to build autonomous re-entry spacecraft
Inbound Aerospace, a space-tech startup incubated at IIT Madras, secures $1 million in funding for autonomous re-entry ...
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Spacecraft set to launch as part of NASA mission led by Univ. of Iowa professor
The TRACERS mission is led by David Miles, an associate professor for the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The mission consists of two satellites, that will “study the interactions between the ...
Blue Origin announces next human spaceflight from Texas: Here's a look at the crew
Blue Origin announced the next six passengers who will soon board one of the company's spacecraft for a trip to the edge of ...
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SpaceX launches NASA's TRACERS mission to protect Earth from space weather (video)
One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will ...
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NASA Ejects Orion Spacecraft's Forward Bay Cover In Test
NASA tested the Orion spacecraft forward bay cover's ejection mechanism at the Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio ...
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NASA, Johns Hopkins APL Poised to Demonstrate Next-Gen Spacecraft Comms Technology
As NASA prepares to commercialize satellite relay services, APL engineers are developing an effective and efficient way for ...
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2 Earth weather satellites accidentally spy on Venus
Japan's Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, designed to study weather here on Earth, have also been quietly collecting ...