The Virgin Orbit "Cosmic Girl" – a modified Boeing Co 747-400 carrying a LauncherOne rocket under it's wing – takes off for the Launch Demo 2 mission from Mojave Air and Space Port on Jan 17, 2021 in Mojave, California. (PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP) NEWQUAY, England – Britain's attempt to become the first European […]
This handout picture obtained by the Italian Space Agency 's LICIACube shows the NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission just before its closest approach to the Dimorphos asteroid, on Sept 26, 2022. (HANDOUT/ ASI/NASA / AFP) LOS ANGELES – NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission has successfully changed the orbit of the asteroid […]
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission launches on Rocket Lab's Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, on June 28, 2022. (ROCKET LAB) LOS ANGELES – NASA launched a new mission codenamed CAPSTONE on Tuesday to test a new type of lunar orbit, […]