Firing on all engines, NASA's latest rover to Mars executed a course adjustment Wednesday that put it on track for a landing on the red planet in August.
Space Exploration
Jan 12, 2012
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On 15 June, the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will follow a different path. An "Inclination Change Maneuver' will put the spacecraft in an altered orbit, enabling it to pick up crucial status signals from ...
Space Exploration
May 31, 2019
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At 5:15 a.m. EDT today, Endeavour began the nine-minute Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, or 'backflip,' on its last visit to the Inernational Space Station.
Space Exploration
May 19, 2011
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(Phys.org) —Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are making high-precision measurements of Pluto's location and orbit around the Sun to help NASA's New Horizons spacecraft accurately ...
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2014
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A private company is on the verge of making history by launching a spacecraft to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
May 19, 2012
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A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space—not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch ...
Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2024
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The U.S. Navy says it has landed a drone the size of a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier for the first time.
Engineering
Jul 10, 2013
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(AP) -- The first private spaceship is headed to the International Space Station. Some questions and answers about the cargo mission by Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX:
Space Exploration
May 22, 2012
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It can take up to two and a half turns to steer a modern vehicle. While turning, the driver must release the wheel in the necessary hand-over-hand movement, which is unsafe. In his upcoming HFES 2013 Annual Meeting paper, ...
Engineering
Sep 17, 2013
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After its successful first asteroid encounter in 2023, NASA's Lucy mission has its sights firmly set on its main targets, the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids. In 2024, the Lucy spacecraft will transition from ...
Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2024
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