A NASA solar sail mission meant to test new space travel materials in Earth's orbit is scheduled to lift off no sooner than April 24, the space agency announced on Thursday (April 11). Named the ...

Rocket Lab launched the final five satellites for the French company Kinéis' "Internet of Things" constellation tonight ...

Rocket Lab will launch a private radar imaging satellite to orbit tonight (March 14), and you can watch the action live ...

The new Neutron rocket includes a "hippo" mouth fairing that deploys upper stages by spitting them out from inside.

Solar sailing is elegant not only in concept but ... It stopped transmitting in 1964—but more than 60 years after launch, it’s still orbiting. That makes Vanguard 1 the oldest artificial ...

The satellite is the space agency's first attempt at utilizing solar sails in low-Earth orbit, and may mark a huge step towards achievable interstellar travel. NanoSail-D will be NASA's first ...

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Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...

A domestic think tank has developed a "solar sail" to power spacecraft using solar winds. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) on Feb. 13 said it developed and demonstrated the prototype of a ...

Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has developed a solar sail deployment device that can be applied to a spacecraft traveling with solar wind as its power source. KARI noted that it ...