Rocket Lab USA, Inc. ("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), a leading launch and space systems company, today announced its record turnaround of two Earth return missions in two months with its latest ...

Data gaps are filled with Pioneer Venus Orbiter data, or a constant mid-range value. Simulated color is used to enhance small ...

It is not known where the object came down (Alamy/PA) Launched in 1972 by the former Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one ...

The Pioneer 12 probe may have been first to map Venus using radar ... jettisoned from the main spacecraft after it was clear it would not leave Earth orbit. It is predicted to reenter Earth ...

The Pioneer publishes a list of nonprofit ... intending to send it to Venus to join other spacecraft in their Venera program. But a rocket malfunction left this one stuck in orbit around Earth.

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...

It was not immediately known how much, if any, of the half-ton spacecraft survived the fiery descent from orbit. Experts said ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a ...