Crew-11 was the eleventh operational crewed mission that SpaceX has launched for NASA under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP), a partnership launched in the 2010s to return astronaut launches
Crew-11 was the eleventh operational crewed mission that SpaceX has launched for NASA under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP), a partnership launched in the 2010s to return astronaut launches
We should rethink how to send humans to Mars — a goal now getting much discussion. With proposed budgets and current technical difficulties in human spaceflight development making such a
Hurricane season has a new contender, and it’s swirling above the poles. Behold, the space hurricane. Just like its terrestrial namesake, it spins in vast spirals and has a calm,
For decades, metal additive manufacturing (AM) has promised to revolutionize aerospace by offering lighter, more complex, and faster-to-produce components. But for much of its history, AM in the space sector
Rocket Lab launched a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS early Tuesday morning (Aug. 5). An Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-12 satellite, nicknamed Kushinada-I, lifted
WASHINGTON — Three European companies that have proposed combining their space businesses say they are still in discussions after missing a July deadline for a “go/no-go” decision on the merger.
The days are getting shorter and not just because summer is waning in the Northern Hemisphere. On Tuesday, Aug. 5, Earth’s solar day will be ever so slightly shorter than
Before astronauts venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo, Mark Cavanaugh is helping make sure the Orion spacecraft is safe
This summer, a team of robots explored a simulated martian landscape in Germany, remotely guided by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This marked the fourth and final session
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida early this morning (Aug. 4). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape