Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Update: SpaceX is now targeting Wednesday, Jan. 15 for its seventh test flight of Starship, according to an X post. The year ahead ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of both solar panels, the final step in checking out these critical spacecraft components in preparation for launch this fall.

In his youth, NASA technologist Les Johnson was riveted by the 1974 novel "The Mote in God's Eye," by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, in which an alien spacecraft propelled by solar sails visits ...

NASA is currently working on a spacecraft called Lucy and has announced that it has successfully completed a solar panel deployment test. Lucy has completed thermal vacuum testing of both solar panels ...

Update: January 16, 4:04 p.m. ET: An updated SpaceX tweet lists the start time of the broadcast at 4:57 p.m. ET, suggesting launch at roughly 5:30 p.m. ET. Update: January 16, 10:43 a.m. ET: With ...

The U.S. Air Force is rewriting the rulebook on how it tests and fields its most advanced aircraft. For the first time in the ...

After weeks of preparation, SpaceX is now preparing for the seventh flight test of the Starship vehicle on Monday afternoon. In a first, the Starship will attempt a Starlink payload deployment test – ...

At 24 feet (7.3 meters) across each, Lucy’s two solar panels underwent initial deployment tests in January 2021. In this photo, a technician at Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, Colorado, inspects one ...