09 September 2016
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its way to study Bennu after successful launch Thursday
... much information as possible about Bennu well before then. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is expected to get close to Bennu in August 2018, when it ...contact with its surface to collect samples. The spacecraft is equipped with TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample ...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
... Observatory in Puerto Rico, which has the most powerful astronomical radar system on Earth, to help track the spacecraft. Coupled with the large radar antennas at Goldstone and Green Bank, by working together to rediscover Chandrayaan-1 and...
12 April 2019
Beresheet spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
...and China, to become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon. Although unlike its contemporaries, with the ...grey regolith were thwarted. "We had a failure in the spacecraft; we unfortunately have not managed to land successfully," Opher ...
13 December 2019
Starliner spacecraft could fly as early as next week
... 25 through 28 December. The status of flight hardware, software and the space station’s readiness to receive the Starliner spacecraft, were all approved during the full day of briefings and discussion, which was attended by dozens of representatives...
08 May 2020
China's prototype spacecraft lands successfully on Earth
... main contractor for the country’s space programs, the unnamed space capsule is the successor to China's Shenzhou spacecraft; the country’s workhorse transport vehicle for its crewed space program. It can carry up to six astronauts, or three...
02 January 2019
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft makes history...again!
...100-watt light bulbs to perform its mission, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft makes history, again, by getting within 3,500 kilometres (2,200 miles...and after picking up the radio message sent by the spacecraft to one of NASA’s big antennas, in Madrid, ...
