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The spacecraft technology that will take us to the stars, the Moon and possibly even to Mars, including news from NASA and private companies.
EPFL team bottled it at the CanSat competition
In June, five EPFL students went to Texas for the competition final, where they put the device they had been…
Students fly a prototype of Prandtl-M, an aircraft that could fly in the Martian…
Some interns get coffee. Others might make copies. Not at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California,…
1969 Image shows MIT computer scientist with NASA’a Apollo flight software
What appears to be simply a woman standing next to a tall stack of papers is actually one of the computer…
NASA time-lapse video shows rocket fuel tank built in under a minute
While constructing an enormous 130-foot rocket fuel tank takes much longer than a minute, NASA summed it up for…
Tiny ion rockets could propel spacecraft to nearby planets
Now you can watch a tiny satellite ion rocket under a microscope to see how it works.
Researchers at the…
Can laser impulses destroy hazardous space debris?
All of the space missions that have come to pass have left behind some party favors out in space — space debris —…
Astronauts will print plasma sensors in space to monitor health on long missions
With NASA and other private space companies already set to undertake a manned mission to Mars, scientists are…
This is the first image of Jupiter captured by the Juno spacecraft
On July 4, NASA's Juno spacecraft finally reached Jupiter. Juno's visible-light camera was turned on six days after…
Video of the Day: Hobbyist builds functional mini SpaceX Falcon 9 drone
A YouTuber that goes by the name ajw61185 has just released a video of his DIY miniature SpaceX Falcon 9 that…
NASA’s SLS booster fired-up successfully, completes testing
The most powerful rocket in the world has completed its testing before it heads out to space with NASA's Orion…