Fuel leaks on the upper-stage vehicle caused it to spin uncontrollably before its planned re-entry through Earth's atmosphere, ending with a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." SpaceX launched Starship ...
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How Spacecraft Survive the Fiery Re-Entry to Earth
Re-entering Earth’s atmosphere is one of the most dangerous phases of any space mission. This video explains how spacecraft ...
Police said the object appeared to be "a composite-overwrapped pressure vessel or rocket tank" consistent with "aerospace ...
BEIJING -- China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control Tiangong 1 space station is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere sometime this weekend. It poses only a slight risk to people and property ...
Two Earth Return Missions in Two Months: Rocket Lab Demonstrates Rapid Re-entry Capability with Third Pioneer Spacecraft for Varda Space Industries Designed and built by Rocket Lab, the Pioneer ...
The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are upon us. US Department of Defense data predicts that the rugged, half-ton spacecraft once bound for Venus ...
The mysterious object was on fire and lying in the middle of a remote dirt road in Western Australia's Pilbara region when ...
Seattle-based Radian Aerospace says it’s developing a reusable re-entry vehicle that can be used to test aerospace components under stressful conditions and then bring them back down to Earth. The ...
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Miners Discovered a Mysterious Smoking Object in Western Australia. Experts Think It’s Likely Unexpected Space Debris
It’s not a bird, nor a plane, nor Superman. At first glance, the burning hunk of metal discovered in Western Australia’s ...
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