A massive cargo ship crashed into a major bridge in the Baltimore harbor early Tuesday morning, leading to a near-total collapse of the span and sending vehicles plunging into the frigid water below. A search-and-rescue effort is underway, with divers and emergency personnel desperately combing the area for people believed to have fallen from the […]
NASA has reached a significant technological milestone with progress on an experimental form of spacecraft propulsion which utilizes solar radiation. The space agency successfully deployed one of four identical quadrants of a huge solar sail at Redwire Space’s facility in Longmont, Colorado on Jan. 30. The demonstration was a big step towards some day using […]
All may not be lost for Astrobotic’s Peregrine moon lander. Soon after launching on the first-ever flight of United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket on Monday (Jan. 8), the lander encountered an anomaly due to a stuck valve in its propulsion system, damaging the spacecraft and causing a significant propellant leak. The company announced […]