Lofted in December of 2023, the military spaceplane was placed in an orbit higher than any of the earlier space plane missions – into a highly elliptical high Earth orbit. From that orbit ...

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Chairman Fatih Ozmen will serve as interim CEO, with Eren Ozmen as president. The company's Dream Chaser space plane was supposed to debut as early as 2021, but delays mean the vehicle has yet to ...

After multiple years of work, along with some setbacks, students in Centaurus High School’s physics club are ready to build a space plane payload with a goal of contributing to climate change ...

(TNS) — After multiple years of work, along with some setbacks, students in Centaurus High School's physics club are ready to build a space plane payload with a goal of contributing to climate ...

Audrey Decker, Staff Writer Secret space plane tests new orbit-switching maneuver The aerobraking X-37B will use Earth’s atmosphere to change its altitude using minimal fuel. Audrey Decker ...

But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ... Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a ...

The space plane will stay in low Earth orbit for two months, during which the robotic laboratory will automatically conduct technology demonstrations and experiments in microgravity. At the end of ...

By Kenneth Chang The agency launched an investigation into the “space vehicle mishap” on Thursday night that forced commercial flights to divert and caused debris to rain toward Caribbean islands.

The prevailing theory is that this emission is caused by sunlight reflected off particles of ice and dust within the plane of the solar system. Monday, January 13, 2025: Seeing Earth from space ...

Another is Dream Chaser, a space plane built by Sierra Space. After delays in 2024, the company hopes it will carry cargo to the I.S.S. for the first time this year. Michael Roston is a senior ...