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Nuclear-powered spacecraft with 11,000-pound payload planned by US space firms
The goal of enabling extended deep-space exploration is driving NASA, space agencies, and private players to explore nuclear ...
YourErie on MSN2h
NASA to launch asteroid hunting spacecraft in 2027
PASADENA, Calif. ( NewsNation) — As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space ...
SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft explodes midflight for a second time, disrupting Florida air traffic
SpaceX pulled off the rocket booster catch maneuver during its eighth test flight but the Starship spacecraft exploded over ...
The Conversation on MSN2d
Inside radioisotope generators, the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...
Astronomy on MSN3d
Why so many spacecraft carry magnetometers
Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...
Private spacecraft arrives on the moon but most likely didn’t stick the landing
For the second time in less than a week, a privately built U.S. spacecraft has landed on the moon, but it was not a perfect ...
Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch uncrewed Starship for Mars by end of 2026
Under SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's vision, humans could then land on the Red Planet in 2029, though he admitted 2031 is "more ...
BBC on MSN13d
Private spacecraft lands on Moon - but may be on its side
A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright.
A second Intuitive Machines spacecraft just landed on the moon — and probably tipped over
Intuitive Machines has landed a second spacecraft on the moon, just one year after accomplishing the feat for the first time ...
See the Blue Ghost spacecraft drilling into the moon’s surface
The Blue Ghost mission to the moon has deployed one its NASA instruments, drilling into the moon's surface to collect ...
News Nation on MSN1d
NASA to launch ‘asteroid killer’ spacecraft in 2027
A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The ...
IFLScience on MSN7h
NASA Spacecraft Deep Into The Solar System Discovers New Unexpected Mystery
A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...