During the latest test flights of the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft the Virgin Galactic company is developing for suborbital joyrides, the vehicle entered a period of uncontrolled descent, during which time it was literally falling out of the sky. Eventually, the crew regained control of the situation.The spacecraft's... |
18 October 2011
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A new airborne defense system using lasers has recently misfired in a new battery of tests, when a glitch in its software made it miss a missile it was targeting. The goal of the flying laser is to provide the United States with a new method of defending against incoming missile. This is achieved by blasting the obje... |
25 September 2010
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British billionaire Sir Richard Branson's company Virgin Galactic is on the fast-track towards becoming the first privately-owned corporation to provide suborbital spaceflights on its own ships. Engineers at the company have been testing various spacecraft for many years, but the beginning of a new age in space ... |
21 July 2010
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Scientists at the Italian Center for Aerospace Research (CIRA), in Capua, announce that they are planning to conduct a series of very dangerous maneuvers in the near future, using a new space plane that they designed. The spacecraft is unmanned, and experts at the Center say that they want to test and see if it can m... |
2 March 2010
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Originally, the launch date for NASA's new prototype rocket was set for yesterday, October 27. Everything went according to plan, and the craft was rolled out to Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) with time to spare. An 8 am EDT (1200 GMT) launch time was targeted, but the built-in safety delay was... |
28 October 2009
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