NASA’s Human Architecture Team (HAT) has opted to remove supersonic parachutes as an option for landing “human-scale hardware” on the surface of Mars. The decision will result in all forward planning involving a mix of supersonic retro propulsion in combination with deployable, inflatable, and rigid aeroshells for missions to the Red Planet.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft successfully achieved a contingency landing scenario on Wednesday, returning under just two…
Following on from their successful drop test of the Orion Parachute Test Vehicle (PTV) in…
SpaceX leads the launch manifest for the first whole week of October with two Falcon…
Another busy week of launches has arrived, with SpaceX dominating the launch manifest with four…
Two Chinese rockets, a pair of Russian missions, a trio of Falcon 9 launches, a…
Scheduled to launch in February 2026, the Artemis II Orion capsule and Space Launch System…
China has conducted two spacewalks from its Tiangong space station in as many months and…
With summer and winter for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres now in full swing, the…
SpaceX’s next mission as part of its Transporter small payload rideshare program, Transporter 14, launched…
As space-based research and manufacturing ramp up, a market is emerging for returning payloads to…
This week, China launched a near-Earth asteroid sample return mission amongst several other missions. Meanwhile,…
This week, China has launched three taikonauts to the Tiangong space station. SpaceX’s Falcon 9…
After more than nine months in space, the crew of the Boeing Crew Flight Test…
European companies in the space sector have been developing novel technology to find their unique…
Following the sixth flight of SpaceX’s Starship on Tuesday, eight additional orbital launches were planned…
PLD Space unveiled an aggressive 10-year plan last month at the company’s new headquarters building…
SpaceX’s record-breaking streak of successful launches and landings ended during the third quarter of 2024,…
SpaceX announced a new capability for the Dragon spacecraft on Sept. 27 in the unlikely…
As Firefly Aerospace prepares for its upcoming Alpha rocket launches, work continues apace on its…
