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China Tests Parachute System to Control Falling Rocket Boosters
In an effort to prevent falling rockets from landing on populated areas, China tested a parachute system designed to control where its rocket boosters land back on Earth.
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JUICE Probe Is Fully Deployed and Ready to Explore Jupiter’s Icy Moons
It’s been six weeks since Europe’s JUICE mission launched towards the Jovian system, and the spacecraft is now all suited-up, with its instruments ready to explore the potential habitability of Jupiter’s mysterious, icy moons.
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Skylab, the First U.S. Space Station, Changed What We Thought Was Possible in Orbit
It’s the 50th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Skylab — the space station that laid the groundwork for the International Space Station. These days, the orbital lab is mostly remembered for the hysteria it created prior to crashing down to Earth, but it’s important to reflect on its historical legacy.
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Engineers Might Have to Put a Struggling Artemis CubeSat Out of Its Misery
A shoebox-sized satellite may soon meet its untimely death after failing to fire its thrusters. The cubesat may have been compromised as it excessively waited for launch on board NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in advance of the Artemis 1 mission last year.