SpaceX’s chief said July 19 that the first launch of its big new rocket is risky and stands “a real…
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Air Force photograph Dr. Santanu Bag, a project scientist at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, is…
Locata Corporation photograph A LocataLite transmitter, high on a peak for maximum range, transmits high-accuracy positioning signals across the White…
When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the moon in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean,…
On June 23, 2017, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the BulgariaSat-1 satellite into orbit — the first geostationary communications…
NASA has achieved a significant milestone in its effort to make supersonic passenger jet travel over land a real possibility…
A NASA suborbital sounding rocket carrying multiple student experiments was successfully launched at 5:30 a.m., EDT, June 22, from the…
Veteran NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio has retired from NASA; his last day with the agency was June 16. “Rick is…
Spirit AeroSystems announced June 21 it has accepted an invitation to join NASA’s Advanced Composites Consortium (ACC) as a Tier-1…
NASA photograph by Desiree Stover NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sits in front of the door to Chamber A, a…
ESA photograph by Philippe Sebirot NASA acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot and Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of France’s space agency Centre…
The internet is an infrastructure that supports all aspects of modern life, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is…