After 53 Years, a Failed Soviet Venus Spacecraft Is Crashing Back to Earth
Kosmos 482, a failed Soviet Venus probe, is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in mid-May after orbiting…
Spacecraft Speedometer promises precise satellite positioning, no GPS required
Forward-looking: Traffic in low Earth orbit has surged in recent years. The growing number of satellites is now…
Blue Ghost spacecraft footage shows Earth ‘in the rearview mirror’
Firefly Aerospace has confirmed that all is well with its lunar-bound Blue Ghost spacecraft, which launched on a…
Spacex’s Spacecraft Crew Successfully Returned With Dragon Passengers
SpaceX’s history-writing Crew Dragon mission was successfully completed two months after its launch. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug…
A Spacecraft Is About to Fly Into the Sun’s Atmosphere for the First Time
Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when…
We’re About To Fly a Spacecraft Into the Sun For the First Time
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun on Christmas Eve, flying within…
Aachen spinout FibreCoat secures €20mn to bring super-fibres to spacecraft
German startup FibreCoat has bagged €20mn in Series B funding as it looks to bring its super-resistant materials…
Radioactive ‘diamond battery’ could power spacecraft for thousands of years
Scientists in the UK have successfully created the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, which could power low-energy devices…