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How do you keep reusable spacecraft cool during reentry? Make them 'sweat'
An innovative approach for fully reusable spacecraft suggests making them "sweat" to survive the scorching heat during their ...
NASA's Dragonfly passes key test. A look at its upcoming mission to Saturn's moon
NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...
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How spacecraft ‘brake’ in space using drag
An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more ...
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SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video)
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 26 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California's central coast ...
A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus is due to crash back to Earth this week
A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...
Kosmos 482: Out-of-control Russian spacecraft probably just fell to Earth, experts say
An out-of-control Russian spacecraft has probably plummeted to Earth, after 53 years stuck in orbit, experts say. In recent ...
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Europa Clipper spacecraft snaps cool thermal images of Mars
NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within ...
Out-of-control spacecraft that could've hit the UK has 'probably crashed' now but no one knows where
A chunk of a spacecraft that was coming back down to the ground has 'probably crashed' by now, but no one knows exactly where ...