This is a major one," said Pablo de León, chair of the space studies department at UND, in a statement. On July 8, 2009, the full-size Orion capsule, encased in a bullet-shaped fairing ...
The pace of the work is likely to accelerate now as a major component of the Orionspacecraft, the European Service Module (ESM), is on its way from the Old Continent to the Kennedy Space Center ...
The weekend brought some wild space news, including a sailing spacecraft and, of course, a couple of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station.
By Becky Ferreira Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of ...