The mission also tested a new “flexible and inflatable cargo return capsule” called the Rouxing ... but according to the China Manned Space Agency, it operated abnormally during its return ...

Experts are working on a unique experiment that will use an inflatable aeroshell/heat shield to protect a spacecraft when entering ... Moon Missions (02:21) The Space Launch System is the Most ...

Recently, a prototype inflatable space station module built by Sierra Space exploded violently on a test stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Under normal circumstances ...

With these and other spacecraft in the pipeline ... space stations, or even space hotels like the inflatable habitats Bigelow Aerospace intends to build. The United States isn’t the only ...

A group of European companies has secured government funds to test an inflatable drag sail in space by 2028 ... to inflate the sail for the SWIFT (Spacecraft With Inflatable Termination) project.

Not many know that the first spacewalk by Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov could have ended in tragedy owing to ...

Last year, the European Space Agency (ESA) made history by landing the first ever spacecraft - called Philae ... technology such as 3D printers and inflatable habitats to accomplish this ...