Lower-cost space missions like NASA's ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science, but at a risk

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...
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NASA's next-gen Roman Space Telescope is fully built. Could it launch earlier than expected?

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now fully assembled and ready to begin launch preparations this summer.

Russia's launch pad damaged after NASA astronaut heads to ISS with 2 others

A NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts reached the International Space Station last week, but Russia's launch pad was damaged in ...

321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week (Dec. 8)

An unexpected bird strike triggered the crash, and the test vehicle exited the north end of the runway at low speed, Space ...

NASA astronaut to achieve a first in Thursday’s launch to ISS

A Soyuz-2-1a rocket carrying the NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts will launch the Soyuz MS-28 mission from the Baikonur ...
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SpaceX gets OK to build 2 Starship launch pads at NASA's Cape Canaveral

SpaceX has been granted approval to build two launch pads at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 ...

Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while launching more missions and increasing the total science return. If ESCAPADE ...