05 July 2016
Success for JUNO!
... JUNO mission entered Jupiter’s orbit safely during a 35-minute engine burn, allowing mission scientists to finally exhale and take a much... solar powered spacecraft from Earth and soon after the burn was completed, Juno flexed it wings so that the...
04 July 2016
JUNO's orbit insertion phase starts soon!
... wobble. Fine-tune adjustment of the JOI attitude is next and twenty-two minutes before the main engine burn, at 7:56 p.m. PDT (10:56 p.m. EDT), the spacecraft spins up from 2 to 5 revolutions per minute (RPM) for approximately five minutes, to help...
18 September 2019
Researchers calculate feasibility of sending a probe to C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
... fling a craft at a reasonable enough speed to reach the comet in time. An Oberth manoeuvre is a spaceflight manoeuvre, specifically an engine burn performed during the flyby of a celestial body. It uses the gravitational well of the Sun to give the...
12 January 2021
Skyrora reveal new UK-built vehicle in live test
...and vehicle structure, as the vehicle performed a full set of engine burns and vehicle manoeuvres that simulate the flight of the upper stage... The vehicle has the ability to refire its engine several times and conduct multiple missions during one trip...
28 August 2019
SpaceX's Skyhopper impresses with its highest test flight
... landing gear, capable of test flights up to 20 kilometres high. Starhopper is the first vehicle to use a SpaceX-designed Raptor engine burning cryogenic methane with liquid oxygen. The finished version will be much larger and will be composed of six...
08 April 2016
Falcon 9 Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... goes well, the Falcon 9's first stage will separate shortly after liftoff, and then perform a series of engine burns to head back to the drone ship, which is called "Of Course I Still Love You" and will be stationed off...
