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The investigation into the April 20 explosion is still ongoing, but so far appears to have exonerated the SuperDraco engines needed to fly a Dragon capsule to safety in case of a problem during ascent, SpaceX says.
As NASA looks to step up its detection of potentially dangerous Near Earth Objects, it is working on a dedicated deep-space observatory first proposed more than a dozen years ago.
NASA is delaying the planned May 1 launch of a SpaceX cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS) to troubleshoot a problem with the station’s electrical system.
Tunisia’s first ‘Challenge One’ satellite is to be launched from the Russian Soyuz-2.1a, integrated with the Fregat upper stage, following a signing between Telnet Group and GK Launch services.
The first test flight of a privately developed Chinese reusable space launcher hurled an experimental hypersonic waverider vehicle to a speed faster than 2,800 mph on April 23.
In 1962, pioneering astronaut and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn wrote a pilot report for Aviation Week after his historic and harrowing flight in Mercury’s Friendship 7.
A directive that accelerates NASA’s plans to return to the Moon’s surface with humans from 2024-2028 has also created an urgency that it return first with rovers.
After a near-flawless journey to lunar orbit, Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft reached the Moon’s surface but crashed about 2 min. before its slated touchdown.
Space launch company Stratolaunch has successfully completed the long-anticipated first flight of its 385-ft.-span, six-engined mothership at Mojave Air & Spaceport.
After the geostationary communications satellite market collapse, Maxar is focused on launching its Legion satellites and rapidly providing data to customers.
