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Lightsail solar spacecraft deploys carrying satellite
A new spacecraft's solar LightSail 2 successfully deployed as it journeys around earth carrying a small satellite that will harness the momentum of packets of light energy known as photons.…
NASA’s Dragonfly mission to send spacecraft to Titan
NASA announced its next big mission to explore Solar System. The agency has greenlit a mission called Dragonfly that will send a spacecraft to the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest…
NASA asks public to help finding spots on asteroid
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been at asteroid Bennu since December 2018 with the goal of gathering samples from the space rock and returning it back to Earth for further analysis.…
Origami inspired design can help reusable spacecrafts
Researchers at the University of Washington come up with a method that takes its inspiration from the thousands of year old tradition of origami structures to help reusable spacecrafts stick…
Spacecraft might be powered by plants
The next generation of spacecraft might be powered by plants if Chinese research plays a paper in the journal Joule, at team led by Yanting Liu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in…
China will launch manned spacecraft probably in 2022
A deputy to the 13th National People's Congress and chief designer of the space program of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said that China will realize frequent launch of…
Steam-powered spacecraft can explore space ‘forever’
Scientists have come up with a new way of keeping spacecraft in space forever by powering them with steam instead of fuel. Funded by NASA, researchers from University of Central…
China’s spacecraft just took a panoramic shot of the Moon’s far side
China made history last week by delivering back to the world its first glimpse of the previously unseen far side of the Moon and released one a panoramic shot. The Chinese Lunar Exploration…
NASA to slam spacecraft into asteroid to save humanity
Where there is a fear of giant asteroid crashing into Earth and destroying it someday, NASA scientists are trying to fight that by creating a spacecraft that will slam into…
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft enters interstellar space
For the second time in history, after 41 years on the road, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has finally reached interstellar space. NASA has confirmed that Voyager 2 exited the heliosphere which…
China successfully tests recovering 7-ton spacecraft
Chinese researchers have successfully tested two major systems in recovering large spacecraft of more than 7 tons, a weight of US Orion spacecraft, and the breakthrough improves China's capability to…