Smithsonian Magazine

A 1,300-Pound Spacecraft Might Be Plummeting Through Our Atmosphere Right Now

Currently, one of those now-defunct spacecraft might be plummeting toward the planet’s surface. Days ago, the U.S. Space ...

Solar-Eclipsing Probe Back From the Dead After a Month of Silence

A pair of spacecraft has been flying in formation, creating an artificial solar eclipse to help scientists probe the elusive ...

NASA spacecraft makes an uncontrolled plunge back to Earth

A spacecraft plunged back into Earth’s atmosphere early Wednesday. While most of the probe was expected to burn up during ...
SpaceNews

Arianespace to launch Katalyst servicing spacecraft

Katalyst Space Technologies will launch a geosynchronous orbit servicing spacecraft on an Ariane 6 in 2027. Arianespace announced March 23 that it won a contract to launch Katalyst’s Nexus-1 servicing ...
Astronomy on MSN

NASA's Van Allen Probe A burns up over the Pacific after 14 years in space

NASA’s Van Allen Probe A re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, March 11, at 6:37 a.m. EDT, marking the final chapter ...

'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it has re-established communication with a spacecraft that is part of its ...
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes a Model Debut at National Air and Space Museum

A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe, the history-making Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft that has flown closer to the ...
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NASA solar probe becomes first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...