NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Gets ‘Revolutionary’ Heat Shield
The probe’s heat shield – called the Thermal Protection System, or TPS – was reinstalled on the spacecraft on June 27.
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Israel Plans Its First Moon Launch in December
The unmanned spacecraft, shaped like a pod and weighing some 585 kilogrammes at launch, will land on the moon on February 13.
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NASA Readies to Send Probe to the Sun, Closer Than Ever Before
The Parker Solar Probe is set to fly into the Sun’s corona within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) from the solar surface, seven times closer than any other spacecraft.
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Boeing Faces Setback With the Spacecraft It Is Designing to Fly NASA Astronauts
The spacecraft Boeing plans to use to fly NASA astronauts to the ISS suffered a setback when, during a test of its emergency abort system in June, a propellant leak …
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ISRO Signs Contracts With 3 Vendors to Assemble 27 Satellites
The Indian Space Research Organisation has signed contracts with three vendors to outsource Spacecraft Assembly Integration and Testing (AIT) activities.
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