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Three Chinese astronauts including the country’s only woman spaceflight engineer entered the Tiangong space station on Wednesday following an early morning launch into orbit.This post was originally published on this site

China’s only woman spaceflight engineer will be among a crew of three astronauts blasting off on a “dream” mission to the Tiangong space station in the early hours of Wednesday.This post was originally published on […]

Over the span of two projects, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign investigated using a propulsion concept known as multimode propulsion to get spacecraft to the moon and developed a technique to design optimal […]

Though there are no firm plans for a crewed mission to Mars, we all know one’s coming. Astronauts routinely spend months at a time on the ISS, and we’ve learned a lot about the hazards […]

A team of space researchers with the IAU Center for the Protection of Dark and Quiet Skies from Satellite Constellation Interference, working with a colleague from Belgian Working Group Satellites, has found that the satellites […]

China said all systems are ready to launch the next crew to its orbiting space station early Wednesday, the latest mission to make the country a major space power.This post was originally published on this […]

The two CubeSat passengers aboard ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defense have exchanged their first signals with Earth, confirming their nominal status. The pair were switched on to check out all their systems, marking the […]

Boeing is exploring a possible sale of its space business as its new CEO seeks to improve the embattled company’s financial position, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.This post was originally published on this site

A NASA astronaut who just returned from the International Space Station has been hospitalized for an unspecified medical condition but remains stable, the US space agency said Friday.This post was originally published on this site