Recreating the environment that most spacecraft experience on their missions is difficult on Earth. Many times it involves large vacuum chambers or wind tunnels that are specially designed for certain
Recreating the environment that most spacecraft experience on their missions is difficult on Earth. Many times it involves large vacuum chambers or wind tunnels that are specially designed for certain
The US space agency NASA will lose about 3,900 employees under Donald Trump’s sweeping effort to trim the federal workforce—at the same time as the president prioritizes plans for crewed
The latest advancements in the ExoMars mission have led to a remarkable achievement in aerospace engineering—successfully testing the most complex parachute system ever devised for use on Mars. This ambitious
SAN FRANCISCO – EraDrive, a Stanford spinoff, won a $1 million NASA contract to detect, identify and track space objects. To continue reading this article: Register now and get3 free
An aircraft body modeled after an air taxi with weighted test dummies inside is being prepared for a drop test by researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The
Major steps in the disk detection process on two cubes: (far left) an unaltered cube; (center left) edge pixels identified using Canny edge detection – some pixels along terrain boundaries
Jared Isaacman is donating a big chunk of change to help inspire the astronauts and space scientists of tomorrow. The billionaire tech entrepreneur and private astronaut, who until recently was
Scientists and astronomers are racing to study only the third-ever known interstellar visitor to the solar system, but with a powerful new observatory coming online, these enigmatic objects may soon
On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them
TAMPA, Fla. — AST SpaceMobile is seeking regulatory approval to provide direct-to-smartphone satellite connectivity for first responders in the United States, after reaching a deal to use the public safety