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Recently, we got one of our best views yet of the tiny moon when a European mission named Hera, en route to the asteroid Didymos, flew through the Martian system for a gravity assist. During this transit, the spacecraft came within just 300 km of Deimos.

In a 28 February POLSA update, the agency confirmed that the information regarding the uncontrolled re-entry of the Falcon 9 second stage had been sent to the wrong email addresses at the Ministry of National Defence....

Launched on 19 December 2013, Gaia’s fuel tank is now approaching empty – it uses about a dozen grams of cold gas per day to keep it spinning with pinpoint precision. But this is far from the end of the mission.

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The Exploration Company is developing a modular, reusable spacecraft called Nyx, which will initially be used to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station. Planned future variants of the spacecraft include versions capable of transporting cargo to lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon, as well as a variant...