Aerospace engineering professor Manan Arya refers to it as the “suitcase problem,” a challenge not of clothing but of fitting ...

The ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, or origami, is already inspiring the design of the next generation of space vehicles, but now there's a new family of origami shapes that could make them ...

There is huge promise in AI to transform spacecraft design. From near real-time performance calculations that enable broader design space exploration, to generative algorithms using mission ...

The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...

MDA Space will build a radar imaging satellite for the Canadian Space Agency as the government studies options for a next-generation satellite system.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 31, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. ['On This Day in Space' Video Series on Space.com]This ...

Aerospace engineers have to consider numerous factors when designing a spacecraft, but one that comes up more and more often is the need to design against micrometeoroids and orbital debris (MMOD).

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab National Security LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch ...

Electrical power system (EPS) designs for NASA’s spacecraft have a powerful and essential subsystem that surrounds the electrical power generation, storage, and distribution. It encompasses a large ...

A model developed by Luminary Cloud and Northrop Grumman can predict spacecraft thruster performance in seconds versus hours for traditional computational methods. Credit: Northrop Grumman Luminary ...