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In keeping with its goal of enabling commercial supersonic travel, NASA has unveiled a unique quiet supersonic aircraft. The X-59 is an experimental aircraft that NASA unveiled on Friday at a joint event with Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. Its predicted top speed
NASA has revealed that the Artemis program, which intends to send humans back to the moon this decade in the midst of a resurgent global drive for lunar exploration, is experiencing some significant delays. At a press conference on Tuesday, NASA officials announced that the
NASA is attempting to strike a balance between the science it can do, the difficulties of landing on the moon, and other changing concerns as it gets ready for the first launch of a commercial lunar lander carrying agency-sponsored payloads. On January 4, United Launch
Since arriving on the planet in February 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter—technically a rotorcraft—has made dozens of tiny aerial excursions across Mars; however, its most recent flight set a new record for the tiny aircraft. According to its flight log, Ingenuity’s 69th flight on December 21st,
The European Space Organization (ESA) is preparing for the send off of its profoundly expected mission to investigate the grandiose clouded side. The Euclid space telescope is booked to send off ready a SpaceX Bird of prey 9 rocket on Saturday at 11:11 a.m. ET,
The ability of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover to drive off the Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander and onto the lunar surface was recently the subject of yet another successful round of rigorous tests carried out by VIPER, which stands for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover.
NASA will make another attempt one month from now to test-fire its monstrous Space Launch System rocket after its first attempt was stopped, the office said Friday night. The rocket’s 212-foot-tall core stage will attempt to fire its four engines for eight minutes at NASA’s
Blue Origin, the spaceflight organization established by Jeff Bezos, needs to go where the private area has never gone. The organization has its sights set on the moon — where just governments have landed. Bezos, the tycoon organizer of Amazon (AMZN) and long-lasting space enthusiast,