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NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close flyby of the sun, the space agency announced earlier this week. The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 3.8 million miles (6.1 ...
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After a spacecraft was damaged en route to launch, NASA says it won’t launch
Three weeks ago, NASA revealed that a shipping container protecting a Cygnus spacecraft sustained "damage" while traveling to the launch site in Florida. Built by Northrop Grumman, Cygnus is one ...
UPI4d
European Gaia spacecraft is shut down, sent into 'retirement orbit' around the Sun
March 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering. A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center ...
Gizmodo4d
Damaged Spacecraft Forces NASA to Cancel ISS Cargo Mission
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft is used to deliver supplies to the ISS. NASA NASA is adding more food and consumable supplies to an upcoming cargo dropoff to the International Space ...
Space.com4d
NASA cancels cargo launch to ISS due to damaged Cygnus spacecraft
due to a damaged spacecraft. The spacecraft is a robotic Cygnus freighter, built by the Virginia-based company Northrop Grumman. It had been scheduled to launch several tons of food, fuel and ...
HUB6d
Parker Solar Probe team wins prestigious Collier Trophy
On Dec. 24, 2024, Parker Solar Probe passed deep within the sun's corona, just 3.8 million miles above the sun's surface and at a top speed of close to 430,000 mph, ushering in a new era of scientific ...
Digital Trends4d
Saying farewell to Gaia, as the Milky Way-mapping space telescope mission ends
Today astronomers are saying goodbye to a remarkable spacecraft: a telescope that has observed nearly two billion stars in its 12-year life. The Gaia Observatory from the European Space Agency ...
Yahoo6d
Another planet parade is coming up in April 2025. Here's when you can see the alignment
Data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter is used in an undated composite image of the planet Venus. It will consist of four planets, including Venus, Saturn, Mercury ...
Yahoo4d
So long, Gaia: Europe officially retires prolific star-mapping space telescope
Credit: Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Milky Way: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho. Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its final orbit ...
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Solar make-or-break moment: NASA awaits news of parker spacecraft as it loses communication near the sun
The NASA Parker Solar Probe has scientists on tenterhooks after ... including on the technology we use daily on Earth and in space, as well as learn about the workings of stars across the universe ...
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China launches new data relaying satellite into space
The satellite will offer data relay and telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) services for manned spacecraft, including spaceships and space stations, as well as for medium and low-Earth-orbit ...