CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. — A slew of satellites and a capsule were launched on the Bandwagon-3 on Monday night for a rare double-launch day for SpaceX.

Ever looked at a turtle — or even a squid — and thought, “You know what? That just might change my life”? Probably not. But here’s the good news: researchers at Mass General Brigham and MIT have had ...

In 2023, Varda sent a pharma manufacturing capsule into space to test a crystallisation process for HIV therapy ritonavir, a ...

Communication with a privately funded European space capsule was lost Tuesday shortly after the spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere.

Monday’s launch included CubeSats, microsats, reentry capsules, orbital transfer vehicles, and scientific experiments from around the globe.

A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is supporting a European aerospace company's upcoming mission to return a ...

Designing for reusability Whereas traditional reentry capsules commonly separate from a service module, which contains propulsion, solar panels, and tanks, Phoenix is intended to be fully reusable.

The orbiter-reentry capsule combination of China's Chang'e 5 robotic probe carried out its first moon-Earth transfer injection maneuver on Saturday morning, placing itself in an elliptical lunar orbit ...

New space capsule just changed the game for bringing stuff back from orbit A European startup successfully completed the first orbital test flight of its Phoenix 1 re-entry space capsule.

Recently, a major milestone was achieved when Atmos Space Cargo, a European startup, successfully completed the first orbital test flight of its Phoenix 1 re-entry space capsule.

The company partnered with the US Air Force to test an advanced inertial measurement unit to advance scientific understanding of the high-hypersonic reentry environment.

"Varda's reentry capsule represents a game-changing opportunity for both government and commercial partners to test and validate cutting-edge hypersonic and reentry components and technologies ...