Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket, years behind schedule, made its maiden flight on Tuesday, blasting off from the European Space Agency’s forested launch pad in French Guiana in a bid to restore Europeans’ independent access to space. Faced with increasingly fierce international competition, European space agencies see Ariane 6 as a critical tool to reestablish… Read More »
NASA astronauts had to wait as they tried to dock Boeing’s first manned Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday, June 6. The five aft thrusters in the Starliner service module were disabled. And that was after flight controllers found workarounds for two new helium leaks in addition to one the spacecraft already… Read More »
We may earn an affiliate commission from anything you purchase from this article. British journalist Adam Higginbotham, author of “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster,” returns with his comprehensively researched new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space” (Simon). . & Schuster),… Read More »
by Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette (Reuters) -Flight control engineers expected to lose contact with the private U.S. lunar lander Odysseus on Tuesday morning and abort the mission five days after a sideways landing, Intuitive Machines, the company behind the spacecraft, said on Monday. It is not yet known how much scientific data may be… Read More »
Designed to fly just five times over 30 days, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter lasted almost three years; It glided across the surface of Mars and logged 72 flights before a hard or inclined landing that damaged one or more rotors, forcing flight controllers to finally complete the marathon mission. a closure. Teddy Tzanetos, NASA’s Ingenuity project… Read More »