Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second space company, has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development and construction of the service module for Orion, the future ...

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While the Artemis Space Launch System (SLS) rocket employs many repurposed Space Shuttle components for its booster, there’s no shuttle as the booster’s payload. Instead, Artemis carries the Orion ...

A view of the aft section of the European Service Module of the Orion spacecraft taken as the Artemis 1 mission nears its conclusion. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — As the Artemis 1 mission nears its ...

One of Kurokawa's most recognized works, and among the few realized projects of the Metabolist movement, the Nakagin Capsule Tower stands as a radical experiment in urban living. Japanese Metabolism, ...

The first crewed test flight of Boeing’s long-delayed Starliner spacecraft won’t take off as planned Saturday and could face a longer postponement as engineers evaluate a stubborn leak of helium from ...

A launch vehicle’s ascent battles gravity to gain orbital velocity, while re-entry is a controlled struggle against the atmosphere to systematically shed that immense kinetic energy through ...