Tag: Space industry

2024-09-08

Boeing Starliner returns to Earth empty, months later than planned

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In this image from video provided by NASA, the unmanned Boeing Starliner capsule undocks as it pulls away from the International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. NASA | Via AP Boeing‘s Starliner undocked from the International Space Station on Friday, months later than the spacecraft was originally supposed to depart — and without the two astronauts that…

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2024-08-27

Boeing Starliner returning empty, NASA to use SpaceX to get astronauts

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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose inside the hatch connecting Boeing’s Starliner to the International Space Station on NASA Boeing will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early June, the agency announced on Saturday. With Starliner coming back to Earth empty, NASA will…

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2024-08-24

How hydrogen could change the future of space exploration

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Two Japanese companies have teamed up to achieve one big goal: producing hydrogen on the moon.  Takasago Thermal Engineering has designed a mini electrolyzer that can adapt to low gravity and endure a rocket’s intense vibrations during liftoff. Once in space, the hydrogen-making machine will be operated remotely from ispace’s Mission Control Center in Tokyo.  “We started to study…

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