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US military’s X-37B spaceplane stays relevant with launch of another mission
The core of the navigation experiment is what the Space Force calls the "world's highest performing quantum inertial sensor ever used in space." This is one of many payloads mounted on the military's X-37B spaceplane when it lifted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:50 pm EDT Thursday (03:50 UTC Friday).
The X-37B is an uncrewed craft that, just like the USA’s retired Space Shuttle, launches on a rocket and after re-entry makes ...
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The Insane Engineering of Re-Entry?
Surviving re-entry is one of the most challenging aspects of space travel. As a spacecraft plunges into Earth’s atmosphere at ...
One shuttle’s name even made reference to the television spacecraft, Enterprise. The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983.
NASA has selected a yet-to-be-named Space Shuttle to move to Houston, conceding to a long-running bid by Texas senators to ...
The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry on February 1, 2003 due to a failure in the shuttle's heat-resistant tiles, which were damaged during its launch. As the shuttle ...
The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley’s Comet. McAuliffe was part of the Teacher in Space Project, which was meant to ...
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