28 December 2018
Dream Chaser spacecraft passes key NASA milestone
...’s confidence in the safety and maturity of Dream Chaser’s design. Owned and operated by SNC, the Dream Chaser spacecraft is a reusable, multi-mission space utility vehicle. It is capable of transportation services to and from low-Earth orbit, where...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... an attractive possibility, as it grows plants in water instead of relying on a soil-like system. The latter adds weight to the spacecraft and the risk of particles floating around, two aspects that make it disadvantageous. The Advanced Plant Habitat...
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...
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 ...
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, ...
