CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A resupply mission to the International Space Station hit a snag Monday morning when the Cygnus XL spacecraft experienced an engine shutdown during its approach, NASA officials ...
An engine problem with Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus resupply cargo spacecraft that launched from Cape Canaveral earlier this week delayed its arrival to the International Space Station, but it safely ...
A Northrop Grumman cargo spacecraft on a resupply run to the International Space Station has been waylaid in orbit due to mechanical troubles. The uncrewed resupply mission, the 23rd commercial ...
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo ship, carrying more than 11,000 pounds of equipment and supplies for the International Space Station, is scheduled to rendezvous with the space station Thursday ...
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Russia Just Built a Plasma Engine That Could Reach Mars in 30 Days—SpaceX’s Biggest Problem Yet?
A new propulsion system developed by Russian scientists is generating buzz in the spaceflight community. According to researchers fromRosatom’s Troitsk Institute, a laboratory-tested magnetoplasma ...
Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...
However, there are two major problems with nuclear rockets. First, the heat generated has to be carefully controlled if you don't want the engine to end up simply melting. The other is how to control ...
The Cygnus XL vehicle, was due to dock Wednesday, Sept. 17. But the vehicle then encountered trouble when its main engine that has delayed its arrival as engineers explore an alternate plan. The ...
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