What actually happens to a spacecraft during its fiery last moments? That's the key question for the European Space Agency's ...
A model developed by Luminary Cloud and Northrop Grumman can predict spacecraft thruster performance in seconds versus hours for traditional computational methods. Credit: Northrop Grumman Luminary ...
NASA engineers explain how a new flat satellite design just worked in orbit, and why it could matter far beyond this mission.
Nearly half a century after it left Earth, a battered spacecraft built with 1970s electronics is closing in on a frontier no human machine has ever crossed. The probe is not only venturing deeper into ...