University researchers are developing some innovative heat-shield tech. An innovative approach for fully reusable spacecraft suggests making them "sweat" to survive the scorching heat during ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled ...

Voyager 1, launched in September 1977, uses more than one set of thrusters to function properly. Primary thrusters carefully orient the spacecraft so it can keep its antenna pointed at Earth.

Soviet spacecraft plunging back to Earth 53 years after launching 03:37. A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus more than 50 years ago plunged to Earth on Saturday.. The European ...

After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time on Saturday, according to ...

A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to ...

NASA has successfully reactivated Voyager 1’s backup thrusters, unused since 2004, in what NASA is calling a "miracle save" for the 48 years old probe now in deep space.