Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system, the ...

While NASA attempted to publicly downplay Starliner's known issues during the early days of the problem-plagued Boeing Crew Test Flight last June, the situation was far more precarious for the ...

Conventional control surfaces, such as fins and canards, have quite limited control capability when air vehicles fly at low speeds (e.g., take-off and landing) or hover. Utilizing the moment generated ...

Recently, the space industry has been becoming more and more commercialized. New space companies with great new ideas and projects are arising. At the core of many space-related projects are rocket ...