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Foldable Solar Sails Could Help With Aerobraking and Atmospheric Reentry
16 Oct 2025 05:48 GMT
Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna deployments on satellites to rover deformation and reformation. One of the latest ideas is to use them to transform the solar sails …
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The perfectly fine, already-paid-for satellites Trump wants to destroy in a fiery atmospheric reentry
13 Aug 2025 11:13 GMT
By Andrew Freedman, CNN
(CNN) — NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October, sources inside and outside of the agency told CNN.
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Rising Space Debris Crashes Threaten Life and Infrastructure on Earth
26 Oct 2025 19:36 GMT
… refuse, with pieces increasingly surviving atmospheric reentry to plummet back to Earth … better tracking and deorbiting protocols. NASA’s recovery of ISS debris …
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Breaking news: NASA and SpaceX Deploy Classified X-37B Spaceplane to Expand U.S. Orbital Military Control
22 Aug 2025 11:42 GMT
… was initially developed as a NASA program focused on reusable … the program was transferred from NASA to the U.S. … manage both orbital maneuvers and atmospheric reentry. It is powered by … maintains a deep collaboration with NASA, serving as the agency’ …
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Stepping stone: On Shubhanshu Shukla, NASA-Axiom-ISRO tie-up
17 Jul 2025 20:17 GMT
… . Fortunately, clarifications from Axiom and NASA have since cast more light … docking and undocking, manual operations, atmospheric reentry, and anomaly management. Onboard the … its own. In all, the NASA-Axiom-ISRO tie-up emerges …
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UAH student group set to launch new instrument payload on NASA rocket to study harnessing reentry heat and converting it to electrical energy
17 Jul 2025 10:55 GMT
… project is part of the NASA RockSat Program, a hands … fly their experiments on NASA sounding rockets at the … materials to spacecraft undergoing atmospheric reentry as an alternative method … to the advancement of future NASA missions.
"We believe …
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Is NASA Ready for Death in Space?
04 Jun 2025 23:12 GMT
… shortly before its automated atmospheric reentry—but their deaths were … decomposition breached the barrier. NASA even drop-tested the … and other tech multibillionaires?
NASA and its partners have … of mortality. To some, NASA’s preparations for astronautical …
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NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket gets 2nd stage even as Trump tries to scrap Space Launch System (photos)
05 May 2025 21:59 GMT
… the Artemis 2 mission, with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor … flying the second installment of NASA's Artemis program, … s heat shield caused by atmospheric reentry during Artemis 1 is to … propulsion stage (ICPS) atop @NASA_SLS for the @NASAArtemis II …
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X-15: NASA Somehow Built a Mach 6.7 Hypersonic Aircraft
08 Apr 2025 18:48 GMT
… thrust.
A documentary by NASA in 1962 provides background … of ruggedness and reliability,” a NASA publication explains.
“NAA, … portions of experimental flights,” NASA explained.
“At a Mach … high-speed flight and atmospheric reentry contributed to his later …
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Watchdog group says NASA went big on woke programs
12 Mar 2025 15:39 GMT
… atmospheric reentry do not care about antiracism talks and gender ‘affirmation’ policies. NASA … with gender transition, NASA urged workers to report … ” in hiring decisions.
NASA also spent hundreds of … from its mission.
NASA announced earlier this week …