All posts tagged "spacecraft"
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1.8KFutureChina’s Tianwen-1 Has Reached Mars and Successfully Entered the Planet’s Orbit
China spacecraft Tianwen-1 has reached Mars for its first exploration mission. The spacecraft is preparing to explore the planet’s surface in May,...
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2.1KFutureNASA Planning to Fly Personnel on Suborbital Private Spacecraft
NASA’s new Flight Opportunities Program plans to expand beyond the scope of launching astronauts. The agency is currently working with commercial suborbital private...
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4.8KFutureSpaceX Has Completed 13 Successful Tests for Crew Dragon
NASA and SpaceX just took another important step toward launching astronauts from US soil through their Dragon safety test. The test was SpaceX shared...
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5.0KMiscUp To A Dozen Orion Spacecrafts Ordered by NASA for Moon Missions
The Orion is a spacecraft created to fly crewed missions to space and was designed by Lockheed Martin, an American global aerospace,...
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27.3KMiscSpaceX Aborts Starhopper’s First Flight After a Giant Fireball Engulfed the Craft
Last week, during a routine static fire test, a giant fireball immersed the SpaceX’s prototype of Starship, Starhopper, which the massive rocket...
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2.2KMiscNasa’s Orion Crew Capsule Abort System Test Was a Success
Just recently, NASA successfully tested the Launch Abort System (LAS) for its Orion spacecraft, that will carry the first woman and the...
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2.9KFutureNASA Will Send a Spacecraft To Fly Over Titan
Titan’s been the subject of a lot of debate and new discoveries lately. First, the Cassini spacecraft managed to capture the dust...
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2.7KVehiclesSpaceX Delivers 5,500-Pound Cargo To The ISS
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule unfortunately suffered an anomaly during an engine test a while ago but, while both SpaceX and NASA are...
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3.0KFutureBlue Origin New Shepard Lands Crew Capsule and Booster Successfully
Today, Blue Origin performed what is the most important test to date: the separation of the crew capsule from the rocket booster....
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4.2KFutureNASA’s Kepler Soon To Retire From Years Of Planet-Hunting
The Kepler spacecraft has been in orbit for nine years already and in that time, not only it outlived its original 3.5...
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5.7KFutureRussian Robocop Is Going To Pilot A Spacecraft Into Orbit
What do you think of a space cowboy? No, not the movie. An actual space cowboy, a gunslinger piloting a spacecraft into...
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22.0KMiscAudi Designer Creates His Own Jaw-Dropping Version of TIE Fighter
TIE fighters have been in the Star Wars universe since… forever. The starfighter appeared on the big screen in the 80s, as...
