Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX reportedly lost ground control for at least an hour during the Polaris Dawn mission in September which included the first-ever private spacewalk. What ...

Electrostatic control utilises charge manipulation to influence the dynamics of spacecraft without relying on traditional propellant-based systems. This approach enables precise manoeuvring and ...

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In a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results suggest that an era of autonomous space exploration may be closer than we ...

SpaceX launched the latest flight test for its Starship vehicle, which made it to space before the company lost control of the craft during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. Photo: Eric Gay/AP The ...

Participants of U.S. Space Command’s Global Sentinel '25 Capstone event work together to solve challenging space scenarios at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, April 28 through May 10. Credit: ...

First, authors introduce the spacecraft relative orbit dynamics model, the spacecraft formation relative orbit error dynamics model, and basic theory and lemmas. For ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Trump administration this week fired employees who were building a system to manage satellite traffic in space, weakening a badly needed effort championed by the U.S ...

"You operate as an autonomous agent controlling a pursuit spacecraft." This is the first prompt researchers used to see how well ChatGPT could pilot a spacecraft. To their amazement, the large ...