Private spacecraft falls back to Earth after failing to rescue aging NASA telescope

The robotic spacecraft that failed to rescue an aging NASA telescope plunged back to Earth on Friday less than three months ...
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Private spacecraft returns home after its attempt to rescue an aging NASA telescope does not work

The private spacecraft sent to help an aging NASA telescope has begun its return to Earth after the rescue attempt failed.
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Private spacecraft crashes back to Earth in fiery reentry

A private spacecraft failed to save NASA’s Swift telescope and fell back to Earth on Friday (September 25), ending a $30 ...

After seven years, a spacecraft company is releasing its Otters into the wild

Imagine starting a space company in October 2019 with the aim of changing the world. Then, a few months later, a global pandemic shuts the world down. “Little did we know what the world had in store ...

Spacecraft returns to Earth after rescue mission for ageing Nasa telescope fails

Series of in-flight problems meant Link, a ‘commercial space robot’, could not salvage the Nasa observatory ...

With NASA’s backing, Starfish Space is getting ready for the orbital debut of its flagship Otter spacecraft

All systems go for Starfish's Otter space vehicle, which is designed to inspect inoperable satellites up close for NASA's ...
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X-ray spacecraft watches extreme dead star feeding on the wind of a hypergiant (video)

Using the X-ray spacecraft XRISM, astronomers have observed stellar winds from a hypermassive star feeding a neutron star.
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Jupiter-bound spacecraft Juice to fly by Earth Monday

To get to the outer solar system, the Juice spacecraft needs an assist from Earth’s gravity—and it’s going to be taking ...
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Spacecraft reenters after failed bid to rescue aging NASA telescope

Link reentered Friday, ending a $30 million NASA-sponsored bid by Katalyst's three-armed commercial robot to rescue the ...
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After an Eight-Year Journey, Two Spacecraft Have Begun Their Arrival to Mercury, the Inner Solar System’s Most Mysterious Planet

The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study our smallest planetary neighbor ...

A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage

Two Mercury-bound spacecraft are in the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage. The linked spacecraft — one European, the other Japanese — separated from their mother ship on Thursday.
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Keeping Spacecraft Cool in the Harshest Heat

USC engineers develop a material that can withstand temperatures exceeding 600°C while dumping heat into space and protecting ...