Spacecraft burn tons of fuel and leave behind debris—but a clever technique called aerobraking could fix both problems.

including validating the spacecraft's performance and practicing docking with the SLS upper stage as a target. If everything works according to plan, the doors will be opened so that humans can ...

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

Humans could be living on the moon before 2030, a NASA official told the BBC. Howard Hu, who oversees the Orion spacecraft used in the Artemis program, told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg ...

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...

Spacecraft used for human spaceflight carry people on board as crew or passengers. Spacecraft used for robotic space missions operate either autonomously or telerobotically. Robotic spacecraft ...

"However, when it became clear that we might have to execute this flyby with one of the solar arrays unlatched, we chose to use ... The spacecraft was named after Lucy, the fossilized human ...

A common case where spacecraft controllers use aerobraking is when changing the ... Aerobraking maneuvers can result in significant fuel savings. As humans get closer to landing on the surface ...

Parker Solar Probe has spent the last six years setting up for this moment. Launched in 2018, the spacecraft used seven flybys of Venus to gravitationally direct it ever closer to the sun. With the ...