Eric Philips speaks to ExplorersWeb about his three and a half days orbiting the Earth, including how they slept and what ...

Human spaceflight has three key phases: launch, orbit, and reentry ... parachutes will deploy when it is 15.3 km from the ground and travelling at 276 m/s, After that, a pilot chute will deploy ...

On Tuesday at 5:57 pm EDT, SpaceX Dragon Freedom ... it from burning up during re-entry. The drag helped slow down the vehicle, so it was safe to deploy its parachutes. Dragon then used two ...

April 21 (UPI) --SpaceX launched its Bandwagon-3 mission into orbit Monday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with more satellites on board and a re-entry capsule that will ...

at 8:48 p.m. EDT (0048 GMT on April 22), on a rideshare mission that SpaceX calls Bandwagon-3. Among the payloads riding the Falcon 9 is Phoenix 1, a reentry capsule built by German company Atmos ...

It's the first reentry mission ever conducted by a European company, according to Atmos. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ...

SpaceX continues to gear up for the ninth test flight of its Starship megarocket. The company performed a "static fire" test with the Flight 9 upper stage this week at its Starbase site in South ...

ATMOS space cargo A German startup was aiming to test a reentry capsule designed to reach ... PHOENIX 1 launched to space as part of a SpaceX ride-share mission, but a change in launch plans ...

If successful, it will become the first privately operated European effort to perform a reentry from orbit. Bandwagon-3 highlights SpaceX’s commitment to broadening access to orbit for small ...

one of three cargo vehicles in SpaceX's fleet. Its previous flights were CRS-22, 24, 27, and 30. Walker noted that the mission will debut "enhanced" drogue parachutes when the capsule makes its ...

Parachute launched a new exclusive home essentials line at Target with prices starting at $12. The collection includes popular items like dotted towels, linen sheet sets and bathrobes. The ...