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Nasa spacecraft crash lands back to Earth

A Nasa spacecraft weighing more than 600kg has crash landed back to Earth, almost 14 years after it was launched. The Van Allen Probe A, which was launched in a pair in 2012, re-entered Earth's atmosphere near the Galapagos Islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean,

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A NASA spacecraft is set to make an uncontrolled plunge back to Earth. Here are the risks

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NASA Spacecraft Crashes Back to Earth in Uncontrolled Reentry

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Old NASA science satellite plunges back to Earth

An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on Wednesday.

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Nasa spacecraft weighing 1,300lb re-enters Earth's atmosphere

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Nasdaq finds SpaceX’s gravitational pull hard to resist

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NASA spacecraft makes an uncontrolled plunge back to Earth

Early analyses predict the 1,323-pound (600-kilogram) vehicle will strike the atmosphere around 7:45 p.m. ET Tuesday, “with an uncertainty of +/- 24 hours,” according to NASA and the US Space Force.

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Astronomers think they just witnessed two planets colliding

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Massive NASA Satellite to Crash-Land on Earth

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NASA’s Van Allen probe falls back after years of shielding space science

A spacecraft built to study one of Earth’s most hostile regions ended its mission with a return through the atmosphere years earlier than expected. Van Allen Probe A, a NASA satellite weighing about 1,

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NASA science probe falls back to Earth sooner than expected

Earth is struck by reentering human-made objects far more often than most people realize. According to debris specialists, some mass survives to the ground about once a week, a reminder that the end of a spacecraft’s mission is often as engineered as its ...

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NASA to provide satellite data for fisheries research in new partnership

Under a new partnership with the Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCEMFIS), NASA will provide new advanced satellite data to support fisheries and marine science research. As part of the partnership,

NASA’s DART Impact Actually Changed an Asteroid System’s Orbit Around the Sun

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense. NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft changed the motion of an asteroid system in space,

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One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to shut it down. This mission, named OSIRIS-APEX, was one ...

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Protecting NASA funding ensures breakthroughs in space science and benefits in daily life continue

NASA’s groundbreaking science missions, vital to exploring the cosmos and expanding humanity’s understanding of our place in the universe, are facing unprecedented threats. The White House has proposed deep cuts to NASA’s budget in fiscal year 2026 ...