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- New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...176 KB (17,519 words) - 05:13, 4 October 2024
- ʻOumuamua is the first interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Robert Weryk...118 KB (10,754 words) - 18:35, 26 September 2024
- Draco is a constellation in the far northern sky. Its name is Latin for dragon. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century Greek astronomer...19 KB (2,285 words) - 07:11, 8 September 2024
- Phoenix was an uncrewed space probe that landed on the surface of Mars on May 25, 2008, and operated until November 2, 2008. Phoenix was operational on...117 KB (11,649 words) - 15:30, 14 September 2024
- The Beagle 2 is an inoperative British Mars lander that was transported by the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission. It was intended to conduct...39 KB (4,201 words) - 20:37, 6 June 2024
- A space settlement (also called a space habitat, spacestead, space city or space colony) is a settlement in outer space, sustaining more extensively habitation...42 KB (4,754 words) - 22:39, 5 September 2024
- Notable spaceflight activities in 2017 included the maiden orbital flight of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (also called LVM3)...213 KB (4,482 words) - 18:17, 6 October 2024
- Orion's Belt is an asterism in the constellation of Orion. Other names include the Belt of Orion, the Three Kings, and the Three Sisters. The belt consists...16 KB (1,628 words) - 17:36, 29 September 2024
- Alpha Comae Berenices (α Comae Berenices, abbreviated Alpha Com, α Com) is a binary star in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair), 17.8...14 KB (1,105 words) - 06:16, 27 March 2022
- Criticism of the Space Shuttle program stemmed from claims that NASA's Space Shuttle program failed to achieve its promised cost and utility goals, as...37 KB (4,185 words) - 18:07, 24 August 2024
- Alam al-Din Ibn-Abidin al-Hanafi (Arabic: علم الدين تعاسيف; 1178 – 1251) was an Egyptian mathematician, astronomer and engineer during the Ayyubid period...3 KB (290 words) - 20:07, 27 December 2023
- (33342) 1998 WT24 is a bright, sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) of the Aten group, located...19 KB (1,680 words) - 18:57, 7 February 2024
- A space tug is a type of spacecraft used to transfer spaceborne cargo from one orbit to another orbit with different energy characteristics. The term can...35 KB (3,373 words) - 19:46, 7 August 2024
- SOAR (Sub-Orbital Re-Usable Aircraft) was a partially reusable air-launched spaceplane launch system concept designed to launch small satellites on a suborbital...10 KB (936 words) - 11:32, 24 April 2024
- Lambda Leonis (λ Leonis, abbreviated Lam Leo, λ Leo), formally named Alterf /ælˈtərf/, is a star in the constellation of Leo. The star is bright enough...9 KB (646 words) - 19:38, 1 September 2024
- Interorbital Systems (IOS) is an American space development company based in Mojave, California. It was established in 1996 by Roderick and Randa Milliron...11 KB (1,034 words) - 12:58, 26 August 2024
- Ismaël Boulliau (French: [buljo]; Latin: Ismaël Bullialdus; 28 September 1605 – 25 November 1694) was a 17th-century French astronomer and mathematician...13 KB (1,566 words) - 16:55, 25 August 2024
- Reinhard Alfred Furrer (25 November 1940 – 9 September 1995) was a German physicist and astronaut. Furrer was born in Wörgl, Ostmark (now Austria). After...4 KB (514 words) - 16:42, 29 June 2024
- The Space Launch Initiative (SLI) was a NASA and U.S. Department of Defense joint research and technology project to determine the requirements to meet...8 KB (842 words) - 08:30, 2 October 2023
- (417634) 2006 XG1 provisional designation 2006 XG1, is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of...7 KB (514 words) - 18:49, 27 November 2023