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A change in engines will cause the launch of a lunar lander being built for a NASA-funded mission to slip from 2026 to 2027.
Stratolaunch released a new video documenting the completion of its second hypersonic flight and full recovery of its ...
Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in 1972 and was supposed to reach Venus. It has been stuck in Earth's ...
Cosmos 482, part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s, is expected to crash back on Earth ...
Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting ...
A Soviet spacecraft is set to return from Earth's orbit after a failed mission to Venus over 50 years ago. See when it could crash to Earth.
Find out about the integration of the Space Launch System rocket’s upper stage, which brings NASA's Artemis II crewed test ...
On Monday, NASA said that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth sometime between Wednesday, May 7, and May 13. The spacecraft is ...
Doug Doyle dreamed of flying jets as a child, but a “tinge” of night blindness kept him out of the U.S. Naval Academy. Now a ...
Unfortunately, as is often the case with sending spacecraft flying into the Solar System, not all of the probes made it to their final destination. One probe, launched in 1972, failed to make it to ...
Semiconductors designed for spacecraft face a range of extreme conditions that impact aging. A reliable source of power is ...
Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.