27 June 2017
New Roll-Out Solar Array tested at the ISS
... temperatures, microgravity and vibrations. Once retracted, the panel will be stowed back inside the trunk of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo vehicle ready for its return to Earth. The solar electric propulsion technology that is scalable, can...
27 June 2018
Hayabusa2 reaches Ryugu after a 42 month journey
... units (AU) once every 16 months. The 900 metre-diameter, diamond shaped asteroid, whose name translates to Dragon’s Palace – a magical underwater palace in Japanese folktale – is composed mainly of carbon, meaning Ryugu is a 'C-type' asteroid...
16 August 2019
SNC remains optimistic about crewed Dream Chaser
... on Russia to fly astronauts, NASA instead funded development, and eventually flights, on Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsules. SNC came back about year later and won an undisclosed share of US$14 billion to develop the cargo...
27 January 2021
Axiom Space unveils crew for first private ISS mission
.... The team are expected to stay at the ISS for eight days and will use SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft “Resilience” for the mission. The trip, slated to launch no earlier than January 2022, is estimated to cost...
10 March 2021
Russia and China agree to build joint international lunar base
... its astronauts into space, the US space agency is now able to transport its crew via SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which it formally certified for commercial human spaceflight in November 2020. NASA has signed up for six crewed...
13 August 2021
Stuck valves keep Starliner grounded, August flight now unlikely
... be delayed by several months, as other vehicles are lining up to use the launch pad. These include a SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule set for launch 28 August and NASA’s robotic science probe Lucy. Lucy, which is the first...
