jueves, 21 de febrero de 2019

Next month's SpaceX launch could help end America's reliance on Russian rockets

It's been nearly eight years since American astronauts last launched into space from American soil. When NASA shuttered the Space Shuttle Program in 2011, it did so under the hopes that the private industry would be willing and able to take a huge step forward and partner with the agency to ferry...

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Flying taxis are making progress, one minute at a time

What to know about Boeing's latest test flight, and the 'third era of aviation.' A strange-looking Boeing aircraft took off last week. It hovered above the Manassas Regional Airport in Virginia, and then landed again—the duration of the whole flight was less than 60 seconds, according to a Boeing...

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Hayabusa-2: Japan mission set to 'bite an asteroid'

A Japanese spacecraft is set to "bite an asteroid" as it descends to collect a sample of rock from the surface. The Hayabusa-2 probe will try to grab the sample from a pre-chosen site on the asteroid Ryugu at 23:00 GMT on 21 February. The spacecraft reached asteroid Ryugu in June 2018 after a thr...

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