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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 ...

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 ...

There are two main reasons why reentry ... SpaceX, comm check. Abby Tang: So if anything went wrong in that moment, remote control would have been impossible. In 2019, auditor's listed parachute ...

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

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 ...

An issue during testing of the Crew Dragon parachute design resulted in the destruction of the test hardware, but SpaceX maintains that the problem was not related to the parachutes. The launch ...

As far as SpaceX launches go ... but in the early days of the Space Age that sort of reentry accuracy simply wasn’t possible. Indeed, occasionally they managed to get so spectacularly far ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. SpaceX attempted to test its Crew Dragon parachute system but the test was cut short ...

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 ...