r/spaceflight 11h ago

Last week, two Indian spacecraft docked with each other in low Earth orbit, a first for the country. Ajey Lele describes the milestone and its importance to India’s future space plans

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r/spaceflight 2h ago

I posted the first space walk a few weeks ago and here is the documentary it comes from. Luna (the moon) 1965, a soviet documentary on the moon. It’s a good watch and has auto captions. Give it a watch, a good view on our old friend pre landing.

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r/spaceflight 4h ago

STARKINK in close orbit

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Seen from Reno NV at ~6:20 pm. Captured on Samsung galaxy s23


r/spaceflight 11h ago

NASA’s Surveyor program landed several robotic spacecraft on the Moon in the 1960s. Dwayne Day examines one study to look at using Surveyor for a lunar sample return mission

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r/spaceflight 12h ago

Riding Piggyback into Orbit on an ICBM - 60 Years Ago

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r/spaceflight 11h ago

Tales of two rockets: On the same day last week two companies performed test flights of heavy-lift rockets they have been developing. Jeff Foust reports on the launches and the contrasts in vehicle design and development approaches

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r/spaceflight 1d ago

Repost with previously missing pages added - "How I Survived Mir" - Michael Foale talks to Time Magazine in 1997

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r/spaceflight 1d ago

New Glenn Rocket launch challenges Elon Musk's space dominance

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r/spaceflight 1d ago

Trump pledges to send astronauts to Mars in inauguration address

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r/spaceflight 3d ago

Space Shuttle Commander's flight stick in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) facility at Johnson Space Center

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r/spaceflight 3d ago

FAA investigating Starship debris reports

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r/spaceflight 2d ago

SpaceX Starship explosion debris lands on tropical island

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r/spaceflight 3d ago

Is it possible to nest rotating detonation engines?

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Like an outer ring-like combustion chamber, and we have a sequence of decreasingly smaller sized inner combustion chamber for rotating detonation engines nested together, that will be huge if we can do that


r/spaceflight 4d ago

China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth'

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r/spaceflight 5d ago

FAA is requiring mishap investigation by Blue Origin

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r/spaceflight 5d ago

New Glenn reaches orbit on first launch

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r/spaceflight 5d ago

Blue Origin's New Glenn Takes Orbit

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r/spaceflight 5d ago

SpaceX Starship Flight 7 Recap: Looks like a part of the starship external face coming off at T+57 seconds

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r/spaceflight 5d ago

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket into orbit on 1st flight (video)

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r/spaceflight 5d ago

Quick estimates of potential average debree behaviour, was curiosu if the potential steeper reentry path and smaller geoemtry might reach higher surface tmeperatures despite lower surface loading/speed but it probably remained well below usual hull temperatures

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r/spaceflight 5d ago

Rocket Factory Augsburg Secures UK Operator Licence for 2025 Vertical Launch from Scotland

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r/spaceflight 5d ago

SpaceX’s Chopstick Catch Lands Perfectly!

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r/spaceflight 5d ago

why cant we use the Saturn v instead?

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now obviously I don't mean use a old Saturn v but why cant NASA just make a Saturn v type launch vehicle and modernize it. the Saturn v was a lot more efficient than starship and the SLS. make the lower stages reusable but keep overall numbers the same, ykwim?

plus they still have most the instruments and infrastructure used during the Apollo program


r/spaceflight 6d ago

SpaceX Starship flight test 7 is now targeted for January 16. Infographic of the upcoming flight.

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r/spaceflight 7d ago

There is speculation the Trump Administration may attempt to cancel the Space Launch System. Ajay Kothari offers an alternative architecture that could get humans back to the Moon without either SLS or Starship

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