NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter completes 50th flight
The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it's encountered on the Red Planet.
The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it's encountered on the Red Planet.
Space Exploration
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NASA's multi-billion dollar Orion capsule is poised for its first test launch Thursday, in a demonstration flight that aims to propel it higher than any spacecraft meant to carry humans in 40 years.
Space Exploration
Dec 2, 2014
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Orbital Science's commercial spacecraft Cygnus-1 left the International Space Station today, 17 February 2014, after spending around a month in space.
Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2014
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A SpaceX rocket carrying a Canadian satellite intended to track space weather launched from the California coast Sunday in what was billed as a test flight.
Space Exploration
Sep 29, 2013
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Orbital Sciences Corp. on Wednesday launches the test flight of an unmanned rocket to the International Space Station, as NASA forges ahead with its plan to privatize US space missions.
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Four tiny spacecraft soared over the California desert June 15 in a high-altitude demonstration flight that tested the sensor and equipment designs created by NASA engineers and student launch teams.
Space Exploration
Jun 21, 2013
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A shipboard-capable system designed to support both the launch and recovery of the Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully completed final demonstration flight testing Sept. 27 at a testing range in eastern ...
Engineering
Oct 10, 2012
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A University of Colorado Boulder space center is providing hardware and technical support for scientific experiments aboard the first-ever NASA-contracted resupply flight to the International Space Station, slated for launch ...
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2012
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At long last, Orbital Sciences Corporation has rolled their new commercially developed Antares medium class rocket to the nation's newest spaceport – the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at Wallops Island,Va – and ...
Space Exploration
Oct 3, 2012
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A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA's Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth's atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to 7,600 mph.
Space Exploration
Jul 23, 2012
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